# # # Nim's Runtime Library # (c) Copyright 2012 Andreas Rumpf # # See the file "copying.txt", included in this # distribution, for details about the copyright. # ## This module contains helpers that deal with different byte orders ## (`endian`:idx:). ## ## Endianess is the order of bytes of a value in memory. Big-endian means that ## the most significant byte is stored at the smallest memory address, ## while little endian means that the least-significant byte is stored ## at the smallest address. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness. ## ## Unstable API. when defined(gcc) or defined(llvm_gcc) or defined(clang): const useBuiltinSwap = true proc builtin_bswap16(a: uint16): uint16 {. importc: "__builtin_bswap16", nodecl, noSideEffect.} proc builtin_bswap32(a: uint32): uint32 {. importc: "__builtin_bswap32", nodecl, noSideEffect.} proc builtin_bswap64(a: uint64): uint64 {. importc: "__builtin_bswap64", nodecl, noSideEffect.} elif defined(icc): const useBuiltinSwap = true proc builtin_bswap16(a: uint16): uint16 {. importc: "_bswap16", nodecl, noSideEffect.} proc builtin_bswap32(a: uint32): uint32 {. importc: "_bswap", nodecl, noSideEffect.} proc builtin_bswap64(a: uint64): uint64 {. importc: "_bswap64", nodecl, noSideEffect.} elif defined(vcc): const useBuiltinSwap = true proc builtin_bswap16(a: uint16): uint16 {. importc: "_byteswap_ushort", nodecl, header: "", noSideEffect.} proc builtin_bswap32(a: uint32): uint32 {. importc: "_byteswap_ulong", nodecl, header: "", noSideEffect.} proc builtin_bswap64(a: uint64): uint64 {. importc: "_byteswap_uint64", nodecl, header: "", noSideEffect.} else: const useBuiltinSwap = false when useBuiltinSwap: template swapOpImpl(T: typedesc, op: untyped) = ## We have to use `copyMem` here instead of a simple dereference because they ## may point to a unaligned address. A sufficiently smart compiler _should_ ## be able to elide them when they're not necessary. var tmp: T copyMem(addr tmp, inp, sizeof(T)) tmp = op(tmp) copyMem(outp, addr tmp, sizeof(T)) proc swapEndian64*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline, noSideEffect.} = ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, reversing the byte order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 8 bytes. runnableExamples: var a = [1'u8, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] var b: array[8, uint8] swapEndian64(addr b, addr a) assert b == [8'u8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] swapOpImpl(uint64, builtin_bswap64) proc swapEndian32*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline, noSideEffect.} = ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, reversing the byte order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 4 bytes. runnableExamples: var a = [1'u8, 2, 3, 4] var b: array[4, uint8] swapEndian32(addr b, addr a) assert b == [4'u8, 3, 2, 1] swapOpImpl(uint32, builtin_bswap32) proc swapEndian16*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline, noSideEffect.} = ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, reversing the byte order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 2 bytes. runnableExamples: var a = [1'u8, 2] var b: array[2, uint8] swapEndian16(addr b, addr a) assert b == [2'u8, 1] swapOpImpl(uint16, builtin_bswap16) else: proc swapEndian64*(outp, inp: pointer) = var i = cast[cstring](inp) var o = cast[cstring](outp) o[0] = i[7] o[1] = i[6] o[2] = i[5] o[3] = i[4] o[4] = i[3] o[5] = i[2] o[6] = i[1] o[7] = i[0] proc swapEndian32*(outp, inp: pointer) = var i = cast[cstring](inp) var o = cast[cstring](outp) o[0] = i[3] o[1] = i[2] o[2] = i[1] o[3] = i[0] proc swapEndian16*(outp, inp: pointer) = var i = cast[cstring](inp) var o = cast[cstring](outp) o[0] = i[1] o[1] = i[0] when system.cpuEndian == bigEndian: proc littleEndian64*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = swapEndian64(outp, inp) proc littleEndian32*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = swapEndian32(outp, inp) proc littleEndian16*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = swapEndian16(outp, inp) proc bigEndian64*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = copyMem(outp, inp, 8) proc bigEndian32*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = copyMem(outp, inp, 4) proc bigEndian16*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = copyMem(outp, inp, 2) else: proc littleEndian64*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = copyMem(outp, inp, 8) ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, storing it in 64-bit little-endian order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 8 bytes. proc littleEndian32*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = copyMem(outp, inp, 4) ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, storing it in 32-bit little-endian order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 4 bytes. proc littleEndian16*(outp, inp: pointer){.inline.} = copyMem(outp, inp, 2) ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, storing it in 16-bit little-endian order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 2 bytes. proc bigEndian64*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = swapEndian64(outp, inp) ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, storing it in 64-bit big-endian order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 8 bytes. proc bigEndian32*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = swapEndian32(outp, inp) ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, storing it in 32-bit big-endian order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 4 bytes. proc bigEndian16*(outp, inp: pointer) {.inline.} = swapEndian16(outp, inp) ## Copies `inp` to `outp`, storing it in 16-bit big-endian order. ## Both buffers are supposed to contain at least 2 bytes.