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37.Dd July 28, 2000
38.Dt SNPRINTB 3
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm snprintb
42.Nd bitmask output conversion
43.Sh LIBRARY
44.Lb libutil
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.In util.h
47.Ft int
48.Fn "snprintb" "char *buf" "size_t buflen" "const char *fmt" "uint64_t val"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Fn snprintb
52function formats a bitmask into a mnemonic form suitable for printing.
53.Pp
54This conversion is useful for decoding bit fields in device registers.
55It formats the integer
56.Fa val
57into the buffer
58.Fa buf ,
59of size
60.Fa buflen ,
61using a specified radix and an interpretation of
62the bits within that integer as though they were flags.
63.Pp
64The decoding directive string
65.Fa fmt
66describes how the bitfield is to be interpreted and displayed.
67The first character of
68.Fa fmt
69is a binary character representation of the
70output numeral base in which the bitfield will be printed before it is decoded.
71Recognized radix values
72.Pq "in C escape-character format"
73are
74.Li \e10
75.Pq octal ,
76.Li \e12
77.Pq decimal ,
78and
79.Li \e20
80.Pq hexadecimal .
81.Pp
82The remaining characters in
83.Fa fmt
84are interpreted as a list of bit-position\(endescription pairs.
85A bit-position\(endescription pair begins with a binary character value
86that represents the position of the bit being described.
87A bit position value of one describes the least significant bit.
88Whereas a position value of 32
89.Pq "octal 40, hexadecimal 20, the ASCII space character"
90describes the most significant bit.
91.Pp
92The remaining characters in a bit-position\(endescription pair are the
93characters to print should the bit being described be set.
94Description strings are delimited by the next bit position value character
95encountered
96.Pq "distinguishable by its value being \*[Le] 32" ,
97or the end of the decoding directive string itself.
98.Sh RETURN VALUES
99The
100.Fn snprintb
101function returns the number of characters that are required to format the
102value
103.Fa val
104given the format string
105.Fa fmt
106excluding the terminating NUL.
107The returned string in
108.Fa buf
109is always NUL-terminated.
110.Sh EXAMPLES
111Two examples of the old formatting style:
112.Bd -literal -offset indent
113snprintb(buf, buflen, "\e10\e2BITTWO\e1BITONE", 3)
114\(rA "3\*[Lt]BITTWO,BITONE\*[Gt]"
115
116snprintb(buf, buflen
117       "\e20\ex10NOTBOOT\ex0fFPP\ex0eSDVMA\ex0cVIDEO"
118       "\ex0bLORES\ex0aFPA\ex09DIAG\ex07CACHE"
119       "\ex06IOCACHE\ex05LOOPBACK\ex04DBGCACHE",
120       0xe860)
121\(rA "0xe860\*[Lt]NOTBOOT,FPP,SDVMA,VIDEO,CACHE,IOCACHE\*[Gt]"
122.Ed
123.Sh ERRORS
124If the buffer
125.Fa buf
126is too small to hold the formatted output,
127.Fn snprintb
128will still return the buffer, containing a truncated string.
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr snprintf 3
131.Sh HISTORY
132The
133.Fn snprintb
134function was originally implemented as a non-standard
135.Li %b
136format string for the kernel
137.Fn printf
138function in
139.Nx 1.5
140and earlier releases.
141It got implemented as
142.Fn bitmap_snprintf
143for
144.Nx 1.6
145and this version was used to implement
146.Fn snprintb .
147.Sh BUGS
148.Fn snprintb
149supports a new extended form of formatting string, which is not yet
150described here.
151