bryanvalletta / c-utils

Tiny, modular, drop-in, library of some most commonly used utility methods for C (embedded) applications. Intended to be used as a git-submodule inside your projects to kickstart development. See https://c-utils.gotomain.io for more details.

c-utils

This repository hosts some modular, drop-in, C utilities that you can copy into your project and and kick-start your work.

List of utils:

The following methods/utils are available in this repo:

• arg_parser - Command line argument parsing helper
• bus_server - A broadcasting IPC server for connected clients
• channel - A Communication protocol (uart, msgq, tcp, etc.,) abstraction layer
• circbuf - Generic, lock-free, circular/ring buffer implementation
• disjoint_set - Disjoint-set library
• event - Event notifier for multi-threaded applications
• fdutils - Collection of operations that are commonly performed on unix file descriptors
• file - Collection of methods that operate on directories, files and paths
• filo - First-In Last-Out (stack) implementation
• hashmap - Hashmap/dictionary/map library
• list - Singly and doubly linked list data library
• logger - Logging module for C applications with log-levels, colors, and log-to-file features
• memory - Do-or-die helper methods that allow use of mallloc/calloc/strdups without NULL checks
• procutils - Linux process manipulation utilities
• queue - Last-in First-out (queue) implementation
• serial - Library to interact with uart devices
• slab - Poor man's slab allocator for dynamic memory without using heap
• sockutils - Collection of methods that operate on sockets
• stack - Stack implementation using linked lists
• strlib - A string_t type and some common methods that operate on them
• strutils - Commonly used C string utils
• utils - Other ad-hoc methods that don't fit anywhere else
• workqueue - Worker thread library that waits for a job to execute

How to use this repo?

You can clone this repo and copy individual files from src/ and link it to your project.