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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+/*
+** File: prmem.h
+** Description: API to NSPR memory management functions
+**
+*/
+#ifndef prmem_h___
+#define prmem_h___
+
+#include "prtypes.h"
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+PR_BEGIN_EXTERN_C
+
+/*
+** Thread safe memory allocation.
+**
+** NOTE: pr wraps up malloc, free, calloc, realloc so they are already
+** thread safe (and are not declared here - look in stdlib.h).
+*/
+
+/*
+** PR_Malloc, PR_Calloc, PR_Realloc, and PR_Free have the same signatures
+** as their libc equivalent malloc, calloc, realloc, and free, and have
+** the same semantics. (Note that the argument type size_t is replaced
+** by PRUint32.) Memory allocated by PR_Malloc, PR_Calloc, or PR_Realloc
+** must be freed by PR_Free.
+*/
+
+NSPR_API(void *) PR_Malloc(PRUint32 size);
+
+NSPR_API(void *) PR_Calloc(PRUint32 nelem, PRUint32 elsize);
+
+NSPR_API(void *) PR_Realloc(void *ptr, PRUint32 size);
+
+NSPR_API(void) PR_Free(void *ptr);
+
+/*
+** The following are some convenience macros defined in terms of
+** PR_Malloc, PR_Calloc, PR_Realloc, and PR_Free.
+*/
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_MALLOC()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_NEW() allocates an untyped item of size _size from the heap.
+** INPUTS: _size: size in bytes of item to be allocated
+** OUTPUTS: untyped pointer to the node allocated
+** RETURN: pointer to node or error returned from malloc().
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_MALLOC(_bytes) (PR_Malloc((_bytes)))
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_NEW()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_NEW() allocates an item of type _struct from the heap.
+** INPUTS: _struct: a data type
+** OUTPUTS: pointer to _struct
+** RETURN: pointer to _struct or error returns from malloc().
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_NEW(_struct) ((_struct *) PR_MALLOC(sizeof(_struct)))
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_REALLOC()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_REALLOC() re-allocates _ptr bytes from the heap as a _size
+** untyped item.
+** INPUTS: _ptr: pointer to node to reallocate
+** _size: size of node to allocate
+** OUTPUTS: pointer to node allocated
+** RETURN: pointer to node allocated
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_REALLOC(_ptr, _size) (PR_Realloc((_ptr), (_size)))
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_CALLOC()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_CALLOC() allocates a _size bytes untyped item from the heap
+** and sets the allocated memory to all 0x00.
+** INPUTS: _size: size of node to allocate
+** OUTPUTS: pointer to node allocated
+** RETURN: pointer to node allocated
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_CALLOC(_size) (PR_Calloc(1, (_size)))
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_NEWZAP()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_NEWZAP() allocates an item of type _struct from the heap
+** and sets the allocated memory to all 0x00.
+** INPUTS: _struct: a data type
+** OUTPUTS: pointer to _struct
+** RETURN: pointer to _struct
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_NEWZAP(_struct) ((_struct*)PR_Calloc(1, sizeof(_struct)))
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_DELETE()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_DELETE() unallocates an object previosly allocated via PR_NEW()
+** or PR_NEWZAP() to the heap.
+** INPUTS: pointer to previously allocated object
+** OUTPUTS: the referenced object is returned to the heap
+** RETURN: void
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_DELETE(_ptr) { PR_Free(_ptr); (_ptr) = NULL; }
+
+/***********************************************************************
+** FUNCTION: PR_FREEIF()
+** DESCRIPTION:
+** PR_FREEIF() conditionally unallocates an object previously allocated
+** vial PR_NEW() or PR_NEWZAP(). If the pointer to the object is
+** equal to zero (0), the object is not released.
+** INPUTS: pointer to previously allocated object
+** OUTPUTS: the referenced object is conditionally returned to the heap
+** RETURN: void
+***********************************************************************/
+#define PR_FREEIF(_ptr) if (_ptr) PR_DELETE(_ptr)
+
+PR_END_EXTERN_C
+
+#endif /* prmem_h___ */