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ExtUtils::Constant::Base(3pm)         Perl Programmers Reference Guide         ExtUtils::Constant::Base(3pm)



NAME
       ExtUtils::Constant::Base - base class for ExtUtils::Constant objects

SYNOPSIS
           require ExtUtils::Constant::Base;
           @ISA = 'ExtUtils::Constant::Base';

DESCRIPTION
       ExtUtils::Constant::Base provides a base implementation of methods to generate C code to give fast
       constant value lookup by named string. Currently it's mostly used ExtUtils::Constant::XS, which
       generates the lookup code for the constant() subroutine found in many XS modules.

USAGE
       ExtUtils::Constant::Base exports no subroutines. The following methods are available

       header
           A method returning a scalar containing definitions needed, typically for a C header file.

       memEQ_clause args_hashref
           A method to return a suitable C "if" statement to check whether name is equal to the C variable
           "name". If checked_at is defined, then it is used to avoid "memEQ" for short names, or to
           generate a comment to highlight the position of the character in the "switch" statement.

           If i<checked_at> is a reference to a scalar, then instead it gives the characters pre-checked at
           the beginning, (and the number of chars by which the C variable name has been advanced. These
           need to be chopped from the front of name).

       dump_names arg_hashref, ITEM...
           An internal function to generate the embedded perl code that will regenerate the constant
           subroutines.  default_type, types and ITEMs are the same as for C_constant.  indent is treated as
           number of spaces to indent by.  If "declare_types" is true a $types is always declared in the
           perl code generated, if defined and false never declared, and if undefined $types is only
           declared if the values in types as passed in cannot be inferred from default_types and the ITEMs.

       assign arg_hashref, VALUE...
           A method to return a suitable assignment clause. If type is aggregate (eg PVN expects both
           pointer and length) then there should be multiple VALUEs for the components. pre and post if
           defined give snippets of C code to proceed and follow the assignment. pre will be at the start of
           a block, so variables may be defined in it.

       return_clause arg_hashref, ITEM
           A method to return a suitable "#ifdef" clause. ITEM is a hashref (as passed to "C_constant" and
           "match_clause". indent is the number of spaces to indent, defaulting to 6.

       switch_clause arg_hashref, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM...
           An internal method to generate a suitable "switch" clause, called by "C_constant" ITEMs are in
           the hash ref format as given in the description of "C_constant", and must all have the names of
           the same length, given by NAMELEN.  ITEMHASH is a reference to a hash, keyed by name, values
           being the hashrefs in the ITEM list.  (No parameters are modified, and there can be keys in the
           ITEMHASH that are not in the list of ITEMs without causing problems - the hash is passed in to
           save generating it afresh for each call).

       params WHAT
           An "internal" method, subject to change, currently called to allow an overriding class to cache
           information that will then be passed into all the "*param*" calls. (Yes, having to read the
           source to make sense of this is considered a known bug). WHAT is be a hashref of types the
           constant function will return. In ExtUtils::Constant::XS this method is used to returns a hashref
           keyed IV NV PV SV to show which combination of pointers will be needed in the C argument list
           generated by C_constant_other_params_definition and C_constant_other_params

       dogfood arg_hashref, ITEM...
           An internal function to generate the embedded perl code that will regenerate the constant
           subroutines.  Parameters are the same as for C_constant.

           Currently the base class does nothing and returns an empty string.

       normalise_items args, default_type, seen_types, seen_items, ITEM...
           Convert the items to a normalised form. For 8 bit and Unicode values converts the item to an
           array of 1 or 2 items, both 8 bit and UTF-8 encoded.

       C_constant arg_hashref, ITEM...
           A function that returns a list of C subroutine definitions that return the value and type of
           constants when passed the name by the XS wrapper.  ITEM... gives a list of constant names. Each
           can either be a string, which is taken as a C macro name, or a reference to a hash with the
           following keys

           name    The name of the constant, as seen by the perl code.

           type    The type of the constant (IV, NV etc)

           value   A C expression for the value of the constant, or a list of C expressions if the type is
                   aggregate. This defaults to the name if not given.

           macro   The C pre-processor macro to use in the "#ifdef". This defaults to the name, and is
                   mainly used if value is an "enum". If a reference an array is passed then the first
                   element is used in place of the "#ifdef" line, and the second element in place of the
                   "#endif". This allows pre-processor constructions such as

                       #if defined (foo)
                       #if !defined (bar)
                       ...
                       #endif
                       #endif

                   to be used to determine if a constant is to be defined.

                   A "macro" 1 signals that the constant is always defined, so the "#if"/"#endif" test is
                   omitted.

           default Default value to use (instead of "croak"ing with "your vendor has not defined...") to
                   return if the macro isn't defined. Specify a reference to an array with type followed by
                   value(s).

           pre     C code to use before the assignment of the value of the constant. This allows you to use
                   temporary variables to extract a value from part of a "struct" and return this as value.
                   This C code is places at the start of a block, so you can declare variables in it.

           post    C code to place between the assignment of value (to a temporary) and the return from the
                   function. This allows you to clear up anything in pre.  Rarely needed.

           def_pre
           def_post
                   Equivalents of pre and post for the default value.

           utf8    Generated internally. Is zero or undefined if name is 7 bit ASCII, "no" if the name is 8
                   bit (and so should only match if SvUTF8() is false), "yes" if the name is utf8 encoded.

                   The internals automatically clone any name with characters 128-255 but none 256+ (ie one
                   that could be either in bytes or utf8) into a second entry which is utf8 encoded.

           weight  Optional sorting weight for names, to determine the order of linear testing when multiple
                   names fall in the same case of a switch clause.  Higher comes earlier, undefined defaults
                   to zero.

           In the argument hashref, package is the name of the package, and is only used in comments inside
           the generated C code. subname defaults to "constant" if undefined.

           default_type is the type returned by "ITEM"s that don't specify their type. It defaults to the
           value of "default_type()". types should be given either as a comma separated list of types that
           the C subroutine subname will generate or as a reference to a hash. default_type will be added to
           the list if not present, as will any types given in the list of ITEMs. The resultant list should
           be the same list of types that "XS_constant" is given. [Otherwise "XS_constant" and "C_constant"
           may differ in the number of parameters to the constant function. indent is currently unused and
           ignored. In future it may be used to pass in information used to change the C indentation style
           used.]  The best way to maintain consistency is to pass in a hash reference and let this function
           update it.

           breakout governs when child functions of subname are generated.  If there are breakout or more
           ITEMs with the same length of name, then the code to switch between them is placed into a
           function named subname_len, for example "constant_5" for names 5 characters long.  The default
           breakout is 3.  A single "ITEM" is always inlined.

BUGS
       Not everything is documented yet.

       Probably others.

AUTHOR
       Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> based on the code in "h2xs" by Larry Wall and others



perl v5.12.5                                     2012-11-03                    ExtUtils::Constant::Base(3pm)