From: Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 15:12:16 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Added a METHOD() macro to define methods with both public and private signatures
X-Git-Tag: 4.3.6~102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a1ff9d1276a48a8c0bc0732a6ef7364b2e0e01f;p=thirdparty%2Fstrongswan.git

Added a METHOD() macro to define methods with both public and private signatures
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diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/utils.h b/src/libstrongswan/utils.h
index ebc67db004..f07e835824 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/utils.h
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/utils.h
@@ -114,6 +114,19 @@
 #define INIT(this, ...) { (this) = malloc(sizeof(*this)); \
 						  *(this) = (typeof(*this)){ __VA_ARGS__ }; }
 
+/**
+ * Method declaration/definition macro, providing private and public interface.
+ *
+ * Defines a method name with this as first parameter and a return value ret,
+ * and an alias for this method with a _ prefix, having the this argument
+ * safely casted to the public interface iface.
+ * _name is provided a function pointer, but will get optimized out by GCC.
+ */
+#define METHOD(iface, name, ret, this, ...) \
+	static ret name(union {iface *_public; this;} __attribute__((transparent_union)), ##__VA_ARGS__); \
+	const static typeof(name) *_##name = (const typeof(name)*)name; \
+	static ret name(this, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
 /**
  * Macro to allocate a sized type.
  */