Programming Environment

Core Libraries

The core libraries in libspdm/library adhere to the C99 standard and make use of the following freestanding headers.

• stdint.h
• stdbool.h
• stddef.h

If a compiler does not provide at least one of these headers or if at least one of the compiler's headers must be overridden by the Integrator's headers then they can be overridden with the LIBSPDM_STDINT_ALT, LIBSPDM_STDBOOL_ALT, or LIBSPDM_STDDEF_ALT macros. The inclusion of only freestanding headers indicates that the core libraries are suitable for embedded and systems programming. Any functionality beyond the freestanding headers is indicated through the libspdm/include/hal/library headers and is provided by either libspdm/os_stub or by the library's Integrator. All statically allocated memory is read-only and the core libraries do not dynamically allocate memory.

Core Library Assumptions

libspdm has the following assumptions against the compiler, target hardware architecture, and target operating environment.

• The endianness of the target architecture is little-endian.
• The target architecture is a 32-bit or 64-bit system.
• The compiler supports the #pragma pack() directive.
• If a pointer has been memset to a value of 0 then the pointer is equal to NULL.
• Characters are encoded as ASCII so that, for example, ('A' == 65) evaluates to 1.

Assertion Philosophy

The LIBSPDM_ASSERT macro is used to document assumptions within the codebase and within an SPDM endpoint. If a LIBSPDM_ASSERT check fails then it is due to any combination of

• a bug in the libspdm codebase.
• misuse of libspdm's public API by the Integrator.
• misconfiguration of the SPDM endpoint by the Integrator.

A LIBSPDM_ASSERT check should never fail due to an SPDM message received from a peer endpoint. Assertions can be removed during compilation to reduce the size of object files. If LIBSPDM_CHECK_MACRO is set then libspdm will check configuration macros, provided by the Integrator, during compilation.