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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
+
+/*
+ * Common user-facing libbpf helpers.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2019 Facebook
+ */
+
+#ifndef __LIBBPF_LIBBPF_COMMON_H
+#define __LIBBPF_LIBBPF_COMMON_H
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#ifndef LIBBPF_API
+#define LIBBPF_API __attribute__((visibility("default")))
+#endif
+
+/* Helper macro to declare and initialize libbpf options struct
+ *
+ * This dance with uninitialized declaration, followed by memset to zero,
+ * followed by assignment using compound literal syntax is done to preserve
+ * ability to use a nice struct field initialization syntax and **hopefully**
+ * have all the padding bytes initialized to zero. It's not guaranteed though,
+ * when copying literal, that compiler won't copy garbage in literal's padding
+ * bytes, but that's the best way I've found and it seems to work in practice.
+ *
+ * Macro declares opts struct of given type and name, zero-initializes,
+ * including any extra padding, it with memset() and then assigns initial
+ * values provided by users in struct initializer-syntax as varargs.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS(TYPE, NAME, ...)				    \
+	struct TYPE NAME = ({ 						    \
+		memset(&NAME, 0, sizeof(struct TYPE));			    \
+		(struct TYPE) {						    \
+			.sz = sizeof(struct TYPE),			    \
+			__VA_ARGS__					    \
+		};							    \
+	})
+
+#endif /* __LIBBPF_LIBBPF_COMMON_H */