Add usage documentation for membuffer helper functions

Added a comment block on top of membuffer.h describing common usage
of membuffer helper functions

Signed-off-by: Jeremie Guichard <djebrest@gmail.com>
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Jeremie Guichard 2018-04-09 10:34:37 +02:00 committed by Dirk Hohndel
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Helper functions used to deal with string manipulation
* 'membuffer' functions will manage memory allocation avoiding performance
* issues related to superfluous re-allocation. See 'make_room' function
*
* Before using it membuffer struct should be properly initialized
*
* struct membuffer mb = { 0 };
*
* Internal membuffer buffer will not by default contain null terminator,
* adding it should be done using 'mb_cstring' function
*
* mb_cstring(&mb);
*
* String concatenation is done with consecutive calls to put_xxx functions
*
* put_string(&mb, "something");
* put_string(&mb, ", something else");
* printf("%s", mb_cstring(&mb));
*
* Will result in
*
* "something, something else"
*
* Unless ownership to the buffer is given away say to a caller
*
* mb_cstring(&mb);
* return detach_buffer(&mb);
*
* or via a callback
*
* mb_cstring(&mb);
* cb(detach_buffer(&mb));
*
* otherwise allocated memory should be freed
*
* free_buffer(&mb);
*/
#ifndef MEMBUFFER_H
#define MEMBUFFER_H