generic circular buffer implementation in C
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Circular byte buffer
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This is a circular buffer implementation, useful mainly for embedded systems (buffer for UART RX/TX queues etc).
It should be reliable with producent / consumer threads (no race conditions, as no length variable is used).
Usage
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```c
#include <stdint.h>
#include "circbuf.h"
circbuf_t cb; // buffer instance
void main()
{
char c;
cbuf_init(&cb, 32); // init the buffer
// now it's ready for use!
cbuf_write(&cb, 'A');
if (cbuf_read(&cb, &c)) {
printf("%c", c);
}
cbuf_deinit(&cb); // free the backing array (in embedded system you don't usually need to, allocate once and keep it)
}
```
Most functions return a success flag (true - success), so make sure to check the return values.
False is returned on buffer overflow / underflow. See the header file for details.
License
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I don't care, public domain (I guess).