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/** @file
 *
 * This header contains the API that your project should use when defining
 * points of failure in your real (non-testing) code.
 *
 * If you want to avoid having libfiu as a mandatory build-time dependency,
 * you should add fiu-local.h to your project, and \#include that instead.
 */

#ifndef _FIU_H
#define _FIU_H

/* Controls whether the external code enables libfiu or not. */
#ifdef FIU_ENABLE

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/** Initializes the library.
 *
 * Must be called before any other library function. It is safe to invoke it
 * more than once.
 *
 * @param flags  Unused.
 * @returns  0 if success, < 0 if error.
 */
int fiu_init(unsigned int flags);

/** Sets the PRNG seed.
 *
 * This function is called if you want to manually set the seed used to
 * generate random numbers.  This allows more control over randomized tests.
 *
 * Must be called before fiu_init(), or at fork. Otherwise, races might occur
 * as this function is not threadsafe wrt. other fiu functions.
 *
 * There's no need to call this function for normal operations. Don't use it
 * unless you know what you're doing.
 *
 * @param seed  PRNG seed to use.
 */
void fiu_set_prng_seed(unsigned int seed);

/** Returns the failure status of the given point of failure.
 *
 * @param name  Point of failure name.
 * @returns  The failure status (0 means it should not fail).
 */
int fiu_fail(const char *name);

/** Returns the information associated with the last failure.
 *
 * Please note that this function is thread-safe and thread-local, so the
 * information returned will be for the last failure in the same thread.
 *
 * @returns  The information associated with the last failure, or NULL if
 * 		there isn't one.
 */
void *fiu_failinfo(void);

/** Performs the given action when the given point of failure fails. Mostly
 * used in the following macros. */
#define fiu_do_on(name, action)                                                \
	do {                                                                   \
		if (fiu_fail(name)) {                                          \
			action;                                                \
		}                                                              \
	} while (0)

/** Exits the program when the given point of failure fails. */
#define fiu_exit_on(name) fiu_do_on(name, exit(EXIT_FAILURE))

/** Makes the function return the given retval when the given point of failure
 * fails. */
#define fiu_return_on(name, retval) fiu_do_on(name, return retval)

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#else
/* These are used when fiu not enabled. They should match fiu-local.h but we
 * don't include it to avoid a circular dependency. */

#define fiu_init(flags) 0
#define fiu_set_prng_seed(seed)
#define fiu_fail(name) 0
#define fiu_failinfo() NULL
#define fiu_do_on(name, action)
#define fiu_exit_on(name)
#define fiu_return_on(name, retval)

#endif /* FIU_ENABLE */

#endif /* _FIU_H */