/*

Copyright (C) 1996-2016 John W. Eaton

This file is part of Octave.

Octave 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 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

*/

#if ! defined (octave_mach_info_h)
#define octave_mach_info_h 1

#include "octave-config.h"

#include <string>

namespace octave
{
  class
  OCTAVE_API
  mach_info
  {
  protected:

    mach_info (void);

  public:

    // No copying!

    mach_info (const mach_info&) = delete;

    mach_info& operator = (const mach_info&) = delete;

    enum float_format
    {
      flt_fmt_unknown,
      flt_fmt_ieee_little_endian,
      flt_fmt_ieee_big_endian,
    };

    static bool instance_ok (void);

    static float_format native_float_format (void);

    static bool words_big_endian (void);

    static bool words_little_endian (void);

    static float_format string_to_float_format (const std::string&);

    static std::string float_format_as_string (float_format);

  private:

    static mach_info *instance;

    static void cleanup_instance (void) { delete instance; instance = 0; }

    // The floating point format for the current machine.
    mutable float_format native_float_fmt;

    // TRUE if the byte order on this system is big endian.
    mutable bool big_chief;
  };
}

#if defined (OCTAVE_USE_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONS)

OCTAVE_DEPRECATED ("use 'octave::mach_info' instead")
typedef octave::mach_info oct_mach_info;

#endif

#endif