Misc.h

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#ifndef MISC_H
#define MISC_H
/*
 * ALMA - Atacama Large Millimeter Array
 * (c) European Southern Observatory, 2002
 * (c) Associated Universities Inc., 2002
 * Copyright by ESO (in the framework of the ALMA collaboration),
 * Copyright by AUI (in the framework of the ALMA collaboration),
 * All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This library 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
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
 * MA 02111-1307  USA
 *
 *
 * File Misc.h
 */

#include <string> 
using namespace std;

namespace asdm {
  bool directoryExists(const char* dir);
        
  bool createDirectory(const char* dir);
        
  bool createPath(const char* path);
        
        
#define ByteSwap5(x) ByteSwap((unsigned char *) &x,sizeof(x))    
  void ByteSwap(unsigned char * b, int n);

  class ByteOrder {
  public:
    static const ByteOrder* Little_Endian; /*< A unique object to represent a little endian byte order. */
    static const ByteOrder* Big_Endian;    /*< A unique object to represent a big endian byte order. */
    static const ByteOrder* Machine_Endianity; /*< A unique object storing the endianity of the machine. */

    string toString() const ;

    static const ByteOrder* fromString(const string & s);

  private:
    string name_;
    int endianity_;

    ByteOrder(const string & name, int endianity);
    virtual ~ByteOrder();
    static const ByteOrder* machineEndianity(); 
  };

  string uniqSlashes(const string& s);
} // end namespace asdm
#endif  // MISC_H