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37.Dd July 28, 2000
38.Dt BITMASK_SNPRINTF 9
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm snprintb
42.Nd bitmask output conversion
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In util.h
45.Ft int
46.Fn "snprintb" "char *buf" "size_t buflen" "const char *fmt" "uint64_t val"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn snprintb
50function formats a bitmask into a mnemonic form suitable for printing.
51.Pp
52This conversion is useful for decoding bit fields in device registers.
53It formats the integer
54.Fa val
55into the buffer
56.Fa buf ,
57of size
58.Fa buflen ,
59using a specified radix and an interpretation of
60the bits within that integer as though they were flags.
61.Pp
62The decoding directive string
63.Fa fmt
64describes how the bitfield is to be interpreted and displayed.
65The first character of
66.Fa fmt
67is a binary character representation of the
68output numeral base in which the bitfield will be printed before it is decoded.
69Recognized radix values
70.Pq "in C escape-character format"
71are
72.Li \e10
73.Pq octal ,
74.Li \e12
75.Pq decimal ,
76and
77.Li \e20
78.Pq hexadecimal .
79.Pp
80The remaining characters in
81.Fa fmt
82are interpreted as a list of bit-position\(endescription pairs.
83A bit-position\(endescription pair begins with a binary character value
84that represents the position of the bit being described.
85A bit position value of one describes the least significant bit.
86Whereas a position value of 32
87.Pq "octal 40, hexadecimal 20, the ASCII space character"
88describes the most significant bit.
89.Pp
90The remaining characters in a bit-position\(endescription pair are the
91characters to print should the bit being described be set.
92Description strings are delimited by the next bit position value character
93encountered
94.Pq "distinguishable by its value being \*[Le] 32" ,
95or the end of the decoding directive string itself.
96.Sh RETURN VALUES
97The
98.Fn snprintb
99function returns the number of characters that are required to format the
100value
101.Fa val
102given the format string
103.Fa fmt
104excluding the terminating NUL.
105The returned string in
106.Fa buf
107is always NUL-terminated.
108.Sh EXAMPLES
109Two examples of the old formatting style:
110.Bd -literal -offset indent
111snprintb(buf, buflen, "\e10\e2BITTWO\e1BITONE", 3)
112\(rA "3\*[Lt]BITTWO,BITONE\*[Gt]"
113
114snprintb(buf, buflen
115       "\e20\ex10NOTBOOT\ex0fFPP\ex0eSDVMA\ex0cVIDEO"
116       "\ex0bLORES\ex0aFPA\ex09DIAG\ex07CACHE"
117       "\ex06IOCACHE\ex05LOOPBACK\ex04DBGCACHE",
118       0xe860)
119\(rA "0xe860\*[Lt]NOTBOOT,FPP,SDVMA,VIDEO,CACHE,IOCACHE\*[Gt]"
120.Ed
121.Sh ERRORS
122If the buffer
123.Fa buf
124is too small to hold the formatted output,
125.Fn snprintb
126will still return the buffer, containing a truncated string.
127.Sh SEE ALSO
128.Xr snprintf 3
129.Sh HISTORY
130The
131.Fn snprintb
132function was originally implemented as a non-standard
133.Li %b
134format string for the kernel
135.Fn printf
136function in
137.Nx 1.5
138and earlier releases.
139It got implemented as
140.Fn bitmap_snprintf
141for
142.Nx 1.6
143and this version was used to implement
144.Fn snprintb .
145.Sh BUGS
146.Fn snprintb
147supports a new extended form of formatting string, which is not yet
148described here.
149