/* linebuffer.h -- declarations for reading arbitrarily long lines

   Copyright (C) 1986, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 Free Software
   Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */

#if !defined LINEBUFFER_H
# define LINEBUFFER_H

# include <stdio.h>

/* A `struct linebuffer' holds a line of text. */

struct linebuffer
{
  size_t size;			/* Allocated. */
  size_t length;		/* Used. */
  char *buffer;
};

/* Initialize linebuffer LINEBUFFER for use. */
void initbuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer);

/* Read an arbitrarily long line of text from STREAM into LINEBUFFER.
   Keep the newline; append a newline if it's the last line of a file
   that ends in a non-newline character.  Do not null terminate.
   Return LINEBUFFER, except at end of file return 0.  */
struct linebuffer *readlinebuffer (struct linebuffer *linebuffer, FILE *stream);

/* Free linebuffer LINEBUFFER and its data, all allocated with malloc. */
void freebuffer (struct linebuffer *);

#endif /* LINEBUFFER_H */
