tahoe-lafs/pyfec/fec/fec.h
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/**
* pyfec -- fast forward error correction library with Python interface
*
* Copyright (C) 2007 Allmydata, Inc.
* Author: Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
* mailto:zooko@zooko.com
*
* This file is part of pyfec.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
/*
* Much of this work is derived from the "fec" software by Luigi Rizzo, et
* al., the copyright notice and licence terms of which are included below
* for reference.
*
* fec.h -- forward error correction based on Vandermonde matrices
* 980614
* (C) 1997-98 Luigi Rizzo (luigi@iet.unipi.it)
*
* Portions derived from code by Phil Karn (karn@ka9q.ampr.org),
* Robert Morelos-Zaragoza (robert@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu) and Hari
* Thirumoorthy (harit@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu), Aug 1995
*
* Modifications by Dan Rubenstein (see Modifications.txt for
* their description.
* Modifications (C) 1998 Dan Rubenstein (drubenst@cs.umass.edu)
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
* copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
* disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
* provided with the distribution.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS ``AS IS'' AND
* ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
* THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
* PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS
* BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
* OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
* PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA,
* OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
* THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
* TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
* OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
* OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
/*
* If you get a error returned (negative value) from a fec_* function,
* look in here for the error message.
*/
extern char fec_error[];
typedef unsigned char gf;
typedef struct {
unsigned long magic;
unsigned char k, n; /* parameters of the code */
gf *enc_matrix;
} fec_t;
void fec_free (fec_t *p);
fec_t *fec_new (unsigned char k, unsigned char n);
/**
* @param inpkts the "primary shares" i.e. the chunks of the input data
* @param fecs buffers into which the secondary shares will be written
* @param share_ids the numbers of the desired shares -- including both primary shares (the id < k) which fec_encode_all() ignores and check shares (the id >= k) which fec_encode_all() will produce and store into the buffers of the fecs parameter
* @param num_share_ids the length of the share_ids array
*/
void fec_encode_all(const fec_t* code, const gf*restrict const*restrict const src, gf*restrict const*restrict const fecs, const unsigned char*restrict const share_ids, unsigned char num_share_ids, size_t sz);
/**
* @param inpkts an array of packets (size k)
* @param outpkts an array of buffers into which the output packets will be written
* @param index an array of the shareids of the packets in inpkts
* @param sz size of a packet in bytes
*/
void fec_decode_all(const fec_t* code, const gf*restrict const*restrict const inpkts, gf*restrict const*restrict const outpkts, const unsigned char*restrict const index, size_t sz);
/* end of file */