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1 Common Trace Format - Standards, Extensions and Libraries
2 Mathieu Desnoyers
3 September 26, 2010
4
5 This document describes the CTF library dependencies on standards, extensions
6 and libraries.
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8
9 ** Standards
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11 * C99
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13 This library is C99 compliant. A non-documented non-compliance should be
14 reported as a bug. See the ISO/IEC 9899:TC2 publication:
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16 http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf
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18
19 * IEEE 754-2008
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21 The IEEE 754-2008 standard is used for binary floating point arithmetic
22 representation. See:
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24 http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/
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26
27 * GNU/C extensions
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29 This library uses some widely GNU/C extensions widely adopted by compilers.
30 For detail, see:
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32 http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Extensions.html#C-Extensions
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34
35
36 ** Non-standard Dependencies
37
38 In some cases, standards do not provide the required primitives to write
39 portable code; these are listed here.
40
41
42 * Non-standard endian.h
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44 endian.h is used to provide the following definitions:
45
46 #define LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234
47 #define BIG_ENDIAN 4321
48 #define BYTE_ORDER /* Your architecture: BIG_ENDIAN or LITTLE_ENDIAN */
49
50
51 * Bitfields
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53 The ISO/IEC 9899 standard leaves bitfields implementation defined, which is
54 unacceptable for portability of this library. Section 6.7.2.1 - "Structure and
55 union specifiers", Semantic 10 specifically indicates that padding and order of
56 bit-fields allocation within a unit is implementation-defined.
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58 This is why this library provides the bitfield.h header (under the MIT license),
59 which specifies bitfields write primitives that uses the same field order as the
60 GNU/C compiler, but does not require any padding for fields spreading across
61 units. This is therefore a superset of the GNU/C bitfields, which can be dealt
62 with by detecting C structure padding manually given the bit offset and
63 bit-field size as well as the unit size.
64
65
66 ** Libraries
67
68 * The GLib library of C routines
69
70 The library glib 2 is used for its basic data structures. See
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72 http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.24/glib-data-types.html
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