* bfd-in.h (STRING_AND_COMMA): New macro. Takes one constant string as its

  argument and emits the string followed by a comma and then the length of
  the string.
  (CONST_STRNEQ): New macro.  Checks to see if a variable string has a constant
  string as its initial characters.
  (CONST_STRNCPY): New macro.  Copies a constant string to the start of a
  variable string.
* bfd-in2.h: Regenerate.
* <remainign files>: Make use of the new macros.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bfd/bfd-in2.h b/bfd/bfd-in2.h
index b75c8e2510c..841cc465509 100644
--- a/bfd/bfd-in2.h
+++ b/bfd/bfd-in2.h
@@ -50,6 +50,25 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 #endif
 
+/* This is a utility macro to handle the situation where the code
+   wants to place a constant string into the code, followed by a
+   comma and then the length of the string.  Doing this by hand
+   is error prone, so using this macro is safer.  The macro will
+   also safely handle the case where a NULL is passed as the arg.  */
+#define STRING_COMMA_LEN(STR) (STR), ((STR) ? sizeof (STR) - 1 : 0)
+/* Unfortunately it is not possible to use the STRING_COMMA_LEN macro
+   to create the arguments to another macro, since the preprocessor
+   will mis-count the number of arguments to the outer macro (by not
+   evaluating STRING_COMMA_LEN and so missing the comma).  This is a
+   problem for example when trying to use STRING_COMMA_LEN to build
+   the arguments to the strncmp() macro.  Hence this alternative
+   definition of strncmp is provided here.
+   
+   Note - these macros do NOT work if STR2 is not a constant string.  */
+#define CONST_STRNEQ(STR1,STR2) (strncmp ((STR1), (STR2), sizeof (STR2) - 1) == 0)
+#define CONST_STRNCPY(STR1,STR2) strncpy ((STR1), (STR2), sizeof (STR2) - 1)
+
+
 /* The word size used by BFD on the host.  This may be 64 with a 32
    bit target if the host is 64 bit, or if other 64 bit targets have
    been selected with --enable-targets, or if --enable-64-bit-bfd.  */