marshal: allow to specify null-terminated strings

[thirdparty/lldpd.git] / src / marshal.h

diff --git a/src/marshal.h b/src/marshal.h
index 55e0a0953d9087fb89f7e50b86416ee099abfc0e..2008603987de94e4ec7eaa75cc3a376cd9396cf5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/marshal.h
+++ b/src/marshal.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct marshal_info;
 enum marshal_subinfo_kind {
        pointer,
        substruct,
+       string,
 };
 #define MARSHAL_INFO_POINTER 1
 #define MARSHAL_INFO_SUB     2
@@ -34,6 +35,8 @@ struct marshal_info {
        size_t  size;           /* Size of the structure */
        struct marshal_subinfo pointers[]; /* Pointer to other structures */
 };
+/* Special case for strings */
+extern struct marshal_info marshal_info__string;
 
 /* Declare a new marshal_info struct named after the type we want to
    marshal. The marshalled type has to be a structure. */
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@ struct marshal_info {
          .mi = &marshal_info_##subtype },
 #define MARSHAL_POINTER(...) MARSHAL_ADD(pointer, ##__VA_ARGS__)
 #define MARSHAL_SUBSTRUCT(...) MARSHAL_ADD(substruct, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define MARSHAL_STR(type, member) MARSHAL_ADD(pointer, type, _string, member)
 #define MARSHAL_TQE(type, field)                        \
        MARSHAL_POINTER(type, type, field.tqe_next)      \
        MARSHAL_POINTER(type, type, field.tqe_prev)