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openmpi/opal/util/convert.h
Jeff Squyres 3a9179a0d7 Initial population of the opal tree
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Trustees of Indiana University.
* All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Trustees of the University of Tennessee.
* All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2004-2005 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart,
* University of Stuttgart. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Regents of the University of California.
* All rights reserved.
* $COPYRIGHT$
*
* Additional copyrights may follow
*
* $HEADER$
*/
/**
* @file
*
* This file will hopefully not last long in the tree, but it's
* unfortunately necessary for now.
*
* There are multiple places in the code base where we need to safely
* convert from a size_t to an int. However, on some platforms,
* sizeof(size_t) is larger than sizeof(int), so casting from size_t
* -> int will result in a compiler warning and potentially data
* truncation.
*
* But, unfortunately, we still need to do it. But we definitely do
* not want compiler warnings. So when sizeof(size_t)>sizeof(int),
* the solution is the treat the size_t value like an array and
* dereference the appropriate nibble and cast that to an int (which
* accounts for both big and little endian machines).
*
* Most places in the code where this casting must occur are because
* collision of APIs (e.g., one API requires a size_t and another API
* requires an int. And in most places, we're not going to overflow
* the int when casting down into it (e.g., it's the result of a
* strlen, or the length of the buffer in an ompi_buffer_t -- if that
* buffer is larger than MAX_INT, we've got other problems!).
*
* BUT -- the whole premise of casting down to an int is dangerous.
* So we provide extra protection here to detect overflow situations
* and print out appropriate warnings. So if this situation ever
* occurs, we'll still overflow, but we'll have a good indication that
* it's happening, and where.
*/
#ifndef OPAL_CONVERT_H
#define OPAL_CONVERT_H
#include "ompi_config.h"
/**
* Convert a size_t to an int.
*
* @param in The size_t value to be converted
* @param out The output int value.
* @param want_check Whether to check for truncation or not
*
* @returns OMPI_SUCESS If all went well
* @returns OMPI_NOT_SUPPORTED if the size_t value was truncated
*
* The conversion will always occur. However, if the size_t value was
* truncated (i.e., sizeof(size_t) > sizeof(int), and the cast down to
* the int actually changed the value), OMPI_NOT_SUPPORTED will be
* returned.
*
* On platforms where sizeof(size_t) <= sizeof(int), this function
* will aways return OMPI_SUCCESS.
*/
int ompi_sizet2int(size_t in, int *out, bool want_check);
#endif