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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
2 | .\" | |
3 | .\" The Sod runtime library | |
4 | .\" | |
5 | .\" (c) 2015 Straylight/Edgeware | |
6 | .\" | |
7 | . | |
8 | .\"----- Licensing notice --------------------------------------------------- | |
9 | .\" | |
e0808c47 | 10 | .\" This file is part of the Sensible Object Design, an object system for C. |
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11 | .\" |
12 | .\" SOD is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
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13 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as |
14 | .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the | |
15 | .\" License, or (at your option) any later version. | |
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16 | .\" |
17 | .\" SOD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
18 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
19 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
65aaa02c | 20 | .\" GNU Library General Public License for more details. |
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22 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public |
23 | .\" License along with SOD; if not, write to the Free | |
24 | .\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, | |
25 | .\" MA 02111-1307, USA. | |
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30 | .\" String definitions and font selection. |
31 | .ie t \{\ | |
32 | . ds o \(bu | |
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34 | .\} | |
35 | .el \{\ | |
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37 | .\} | |
38 | . | |
39 | .\" .hP TEXT -- start an indented paragraph with TEXT hanging off to the left | |
40 | .de hP | |
41 | .IP | |
42 | \h'-\w'\fB\\$1\ \fP'u'\fB\\$1\ \fP\c | |
43 | .. | |
44 | . | |
45 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
46 | .TH sod 3 "8 September 2015" "Straylight/Edgeware" "Sensible Object Design" | |
47 | . | |
48 | .SH NAME | |
49 | sod \- Sensible Object Design runtime library | |
50 | . | |
51 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
52 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
53 | .B #include <sod/sod.h> | |
54 | .PP | |
55 | .B void *\c | |
56 | .B SOD_XCHAIN(\c | |
57 | .IB chead , | |
58 | .BI "const " cls " *" obj ); | |
59 | .br | |
60 | .B ptrdiff_t | |
61 | .B SOD_OFFSETDIFF(\c | |
62 | .IB type , | |
63 | .IB mema , | |
64 | .IB memb ); | |
65 | .br | |
66 | .IB cls "__ilayout *" \c | |
67 | .B SOD_ILAYOUT(\c | |
68 | .IB cls , | |
69 | .IB chead , | |
70 | .BI "const void *" obj ); | |
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71 | .br |
72 | .B void *\c | |
73 | .B SOD_INSTBASE(\c | |
74 | .BI "const " cls " *" obj ); | |
47de28ae | 75 | .PP |
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76 | .B const void *\c |
77 | .B SOD_CLASSOF(\c | |
78 | .BI "const " cls " *" obj ); | |
79 | .br | |
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80 | .B int |
81 | .B sod_subclassp(\c | |
82 | .BI "const SodClass *" sub , | |
83 | .BI "const SodClass *" super ); | |
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84 | .PP |
85 | .IB cls " *" \c | |
86 | .B SOD_CONVERT(\c | |
87 | .IB cls , | |
88 | .BI "const void *" obj ); | |
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89 | .br |
90 | .B int | |
91 | .B sod_convert(\c | |
92 | .BI "const SodClass *" cls , | |
93 | .BI "const void *" obj ); | |
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94 | .PP |
95 | .B SOD_DECL(\c | |
96 | .IB cls , | |
97 | .IB var ); | |
98 | .PP | |
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99 | . |
100 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
101 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
102 | . | |
103 | The functions and macros defined here generally expect that | |
104 | instances and classes inherit from the standard | |
105 | .B SodObject | |
106 | root object. | |
107 | While the translator can (at some effort) support alternative roots, | |
108 | they will require different run-time support machinery. | |
109 | . | |
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110 | .SS Layout utilities |
111 | The following macros are useful in | |
112 | finding one's way around an instance layout structure, | |
113 | given various levels of information about | |
114 | what kind of object one is dealing with, | |
115 | or for computing the tables which are used for | |
116 | this kind of navigation. | |
117 | .PP | |
118 | These macros are mostly intended for use in | |
119 | code generated by the Sod translator. | |
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120 | Others may find them useful for special effects, |
121 | but they can be tricky to understand and use correctly | |
122 | and can't really be recommended for general use. | |
123 | .PP | |
124 | The | |
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125 | .B SOD_OFFSETDIFF |
126 | macro returns the signed offset between | |
127 | two members of a structure or union type. | |
128 | Given a structure or union type | |
129 | .IR type , | |
130 | and two member names | |
131 | .I mema | |
132 | and | |
133 | .IR memb , | |
134 | then | |
135 | .B SOD_OFFSETDIFF(\c | |
136 | .IB type , | |
137 | .IB mema , | |
138 | .IB memb ) | |
139 | gives the difference, in bytes, | |
140 | between the objects | |
141 | .IB x . mema | |
142 | and | |
143 | .IB x . memb | |
144 | for any object | |
145 | .I x | |
146 | of type | |
147 | .IR type . | |
148 | This macro is used internally when generating vtables | |
149 | and is not expected to be very useful elsewhere. | |
150 | .PP | |
151 | The | |
152 | .B SOD_ILAYOUT | |
153 | macro recovers the instance layout base address | |
154 | from a pointer to one of its instance chains. | |
155 | Specifically, given a class name | |
156 | .IR cls , | |
157 | the nickname | |
158 | .I chead | |
159 | of the least specific class in one of | |
160 | .IR cls 's | |
161 | superclass chains, | |
162 | and a pointer | |
163 | .I obj | |
164 | to the instance storage for the chain containing | |
165 | .I chead | |
166 | within an exact instance of | |
167 | .I cls | |
168 | (i.e., not an instance of any proper subclass), | |
169 | .B SOD_ILAYOUT(\c | |
170 | .IB cls , | |
171 | .IB chead , | |
172 | .IB obj ) | |
173 | returns the a pointer to the layout structure containing | |
174 | .IB obj . | |
175 | This macro is used internally in effective method bodies | |
176 | and is not expected to be very useful elsewhere | |
177 | since it's unusual to have such specific knowledge | |
178 | about the dynamic type of an instance. | |
179 | The | |
180 | .B SOD_INSTBASE | |
181 | macro (described below) is more suited to general use. | |
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182 | .PP |
183 | The | |
184 | .B SOD_INSTBASE | |
185 | macro finds the base address of an instance's layout. | |
186 | Given a pointer | |
187 | .BI "const " cls " *" obj | |
188 | to an instance, | |
189 | .BI SOD_INSTBASE( obj ) | |
190 | returns the base address of the storage allocated to | |
191 | .IR obj . | |
192 | This is useful if you want to free a dynamically allocated instance, | |
193 | for example. | |
194 | This macro needs to look up an offset in | |
195 | .IR obj 's | |
196 | vtable to do its work. | |
197 | Compare | |
198 | .B SOD_ILAYOUT | |
199 | above, | |
200 | which is faster but requires | |
201 | precise knowledge of the instance's dynamic class. | |
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203 | .SS Classes |
204 | The following macros and functions | |
205 | query the runtime relationhips between | |
206 | instances and classes. | |
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207 | .PP |
208 | The | |
209 | .B SOD_CLASSOF | |
210 | macro returns the class object describing an instance's dynamic class. | |
211 | Given a pointer | |
212 | .BI "const " cls " *" obj | |
213 | to an instance, | |
214 | .BI SOD_CLASSOF( obj ) | |
215 | returns a pointer to | |
216 | .IR obj 's | |
217 | dynamic class, | |
218 | which | |
219 | (assuming | |
220 | .I obj | |
221 | is typed correctly in the first place) | |
222 | will be a subclass of | |
223 | .IR cls . | |
224 | (If you wanted the class object for | |
225 | .I cls | |
226 | itself, | |
227 | it's called | |
228 | .IB cls __class \fR.) | |
229 | .PP | |
230 | The | |
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231 | .B sod_subclassp |
232 | function answers whether one class | |
233 | .I sub | |
234 | is actually a subclass of another class | |
235 | .IR super . | |
236 | .B sod_subclassp(\c | |
237 | .IB sub , | |
238 | .IB super ) | |
239 | returns nonzero if and only if | |
240 | .I sub | |
241 | is a subclass of | |
242 | .IR super . | |
243 | This involves a run-time trawl through the class structures: | |
244 | while some effort has been made to make it perform well | |
245 | it's still not very fast. | |
246 | . | |
247 | .SS Conversions | |
248 | The following macros and functions are used | |
249 | to convert instance pointers of some (static) type | |
250 | into instance pointers of other static types | |
251 | to the same instance. | |
252 | .PP | |
253 | The | |
254 | .B SOD_XCHAIN | |
255 | macro performs a `cross-chain upcast'. | |
47de28ae | 256 | Given a pointer |
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257 | .I cls |
258 | .BI * obj | |
259 | to an instance of a class of type | |
260 | .I cls | |
261 | and the nickname | |
262 | .I chead | |
263 | of the least specific class in one of | |
264 | .IR cls 's | |
265 | superclass chains which does not contain | |
266 | .I cls | |
267 | itself, | |
268 | .B SOD_XCHAIN(\c | |
269 | .IB chead , | |
270 | .IB obj ) | |
271 | returns the address of that chain's storage | |
272 | within the instance layout as a raw | |
273 | .B void * | |
274 | pointer. | |
275 | (Note that | |
276 | .I cls | |
277 | is not mentioned explicitly.) | |
278 | This macro is used by the generated | |
279 | .IB cls __CONV_ c | |
280 | conversion macros, | |
281 | which you are encouraged to use instead where possible. | |
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282 | .PP |
283 | The | |
284 | .B SOD_CONVERT | |
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285 | macro |
286 | and | |
287 | .B sod_convert | |
288 | function | |
289 | perform general conversions | |
47de28ae | 290 | (up-, down-, and cross-casts) on instance pointers. |
4e3a7cb2 | 291 | Given a class |
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292 | .I cls |
293 | and a pointer | |
294 | .BI "const void *" obj | |
295 | to an instance, | |
4e3a7cb2 | 296 | they return an appropriately converted pointer to |
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297 | .I obj |
298 | if | |
299 | .I obj | |
300 | is indeed an instance of (some subclass of) | |
301 | .IR cls ; | |
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302 | otherwise they return a null pointer. |
303 | .PP | |
304 | The | |
305 | .B SOD_CONVERT | |
306 | macro expects | |
307 | .I cls | |
308 | to be a class name; | |
309 | the | |
310 | .B sod_convert | |
311 | function | |
312 | expects a pointer to a class object instead. | |
313 | .PP | |
314 | This involves a run-time trawl through the class structures: | |
315 | while some effort has been made to make it perform well | |
316 | it's still not very fast. | |
317 | For upcasts (where | |
318 | .I cls | |
319 | is a superclass of the static type of | |
320 | .IR obj ) | |
321 | the automatically defined conversion macros should be used instead, | |
322 | because they're much faster and can't fail. | |
323 | .PP | |
324 | When the target class is known statically, | |
325 | it's slightly more convenient to use the | |
326 | .B SOD_CONVERT | |
327 | macro rather than the | |
47de28ae | 328 | .B sod_convert |
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329 | function, |
330 | since the class object name is longer and uglier, | |
331 | and the macro returns a pointer of the correct type. | |
332 | . | |
333 | .SS Instance lifecycle | |
334 | The following macros and functions | |
335 | manage the standard steps along | |
336 | an instance's lifecycle. | |
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337 | .PP |
338 | The | |
339 | .B SOD_DECL | |
340 | macro declares and initializes an instance | |
341 | with automatic storage duration. | |
342 | Given a class name | |
343 | .I cls | |
344 | and an identifier | |
345 | .IR var , | |
346 | .B SOD_DECL(\c | |
347 | .IB cls , | |
348 | .IB var ) | |
349 | declares | |
350 | .I var | |
351 | to be a pointer to an instance of | |
352 | .IR cls . | |
353 | The instance is initialized in the sense that | |
354 | its vtable and class pointers have been set up, | |
355 | and slots for which initializers are defined | |
356 | are set to the appropriate initial values. | |
357 | The instance has automatic storage duration: | |
358 | pointers to it will become invalid when control | |
359 | exits the scope of the declaration. | |
360 | . | |
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361 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
362 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
9ed8eb2a | 363 | .BR sod (1), |
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364 | .BR sod-structs (3). |
365 | . | |
366 | .\"-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
367 | .SH AUTHOR | |
368 | Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk> | |
369 | . | |
370 | .\"----- That's all, folks -------------------------------------------------- |