CXSOCK

A single header wrapper library for linux socket programming

USAGE

Copy the header file cxsock.h into your project and you are good to go.

useful documented functions are given below:

1. int make_socket(const char *host_str, const char *port_str, int socktype, int flags, struct addrinfo **res_out) Creates a socket using the given host, port, socket type and address flags to create a socket, and sets the res_out pointer(if it's not NULL) to the utilized address info(this is allocated)

Returns negative number if failure occured

2. ssize_t sendall(int sockfd, const void *buf, size_t len, int flags) blocks the caller thread until it sends all the data

3. ssize_t recvall(int sockfd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags) blocks the caller thread until it reads everything from the net socket

4. void pack32(const void *data, char *out) packs the 32 bit data 0 -> LSB to 4 -> MSB(little endian)

5. void unpack32(const char *packed, void *out) unpacks the 32 bit data from 0 -> LSB to 4 -> MSB(little endian)

6. void pack64(const void *data, char *out) packs the 64 bit data 0 -> LSB to 8 -> MSB(little endian)

7. void unpack64(const char *packed, void *out) unpacks the 64 bit data from 0 -> LSB to 8 -> MSB(little endian)

8. int is_big_endian() as the name suggests, returns whether or not this system is big endian, otherwise little endian. (THIS FUNCTION IS NOT COMPILE TIME)

9. pack32_inplace(...) a macro that calls pack32 but packs the given data in the same memory location

10. unpack32_inplace(...) a macro that calls unpack32 but unpacks the given data in the same memory location

LICENSE

Licensed under MIT