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#ifndef nsMemory_h__
#define nsMemory_h__

#include "nsISupports.h"


/**
 * Static helper routines to manage memory. These routines allow easy access
 * to xpcom's built-in (global) nsIMemory implementation, without needing
 * to go through the service manager to get it. However this requires clients
 * to link with the xpcom DLL. 
 *
 * This class is not threadsafe and is intented for use only on the main
 * thread.
 */
class nsMemory
{
public:
    static NS_COM void*      Alloc(size_t size);
    static NS_COM void*      Realloc(void* ptr, size_t size);
    static NS_COM void       Free(void* ptr);
    static NS_COM void*      Clone(const void* ptr, size_t size);
};

/** 
 * Macro to free all elements of an XPCOM array of a given size using
 * freeFunc, then frees the array itself using nsMemory::Free().  
 *
 * Note that this macro (and its wrappers) can be used to deallocate a
 * partially- or completely-built array while unwinding an error
 * condition inside the XPCOM routine that was going to return the
 * array.  For this to work on a partially-built array, your code
 * needs to be building the array from index 0 upwards, and simply
 * pass the number of elements that have already been built (and thus
 * need to be freed) as |size|.
 *
 * Thanks to <alecf@netscape.com> for suggesting this form, which
 * allows the macro to be used with NS_RELEASE / NS_RELEASE_IF in
 * addition to nsMemory::Free.
 * 
 * @param size      Number of elements in the array.  If not a constant, this 
 *                  should be a PRInt32.  Note that this means this macro 
 *                  will not work if size >= 2^31.
 * @param array     The array to be freed.
 * @param freeFunc  The function or macro to be used to free it. 
 *                  For arrays of nsISupports (or any class derived
 *                  from it), NS_IF_RELEASE (or NS_RELEASE) should be
 *                  passed as freeFunc.  For most (all?) other pointer
 *                  types (including XPCOM strings and wstrings),
 *                  nsMemory::Free should be used, since the
 *                  shared-allocator (nsMemory) is what will have been
 *                  used to allocate the memory.  
 */
#define NS_FREE_XPCOM_POINTER_ARRAY(size, array, freeFunc)                    \
    PR_BEGIN_MACRO                                                            \
        PRInt32 iter_ = PRInt32(size);                                        \
        while (--iter_ >= 0)                                                  \
            freeFunc((array)[iter_]);                                         \
        nsMemory::Free((array));                                              \
    PR_END_MACRO

// convenience macros for commonly used calls.  mmmmm.  syntactic sugar.

/** 
 * Macro to free arrays of non-refcounted objects allocated by the
 * shared allocator (nsMemory) such as strings and wstrings.  A
 * convenience wrapper around NS_FREE_XPCOM_POINTER_ARRAY.
 *
 * @param size      Number of elements in the array.  If not a constant, this 
 *                  should be a PRInt32.  Note that this means this macro 
 *                  will not work if size >= 2^31.
 * @param array     The array to be freed.
 */
#define NS_FREE_XPCOM_ALLOCATED_POINTER_ARRAY(size, array)                    \
    NS_FREE_XPCOM_POINTER_ARRAY((size), (array), nsMemory::Free)

/**
 * Macro to free an array of pointers to nsISupports (or classes
 * derived from it).  A convenience wrapper around
 * NS_FREE_XPCOM_POINTER_ARRAY.
 *
 * Note that if you know that none of your nsISupports pointers are
 * going to be 0, you can gain a bit of speed by calling
 * NS_FREE_XPCOM_POINTER_ARRAY directly and using NS_RELEASE as your
 * free function.
 *
 * @param size      Number of elements in the array.  If not a constant, this 
 *                  should be a PRInt32.  Note that this means this macro 
 *                  will not work if size >= 2^31.
 * @param array     The array to be freed.
 */
#define NS_FREE_XPCOM_ISUPPORTS_POINTER_ARRAY(size, array)                    \
    NS_FREE_XPCOM_POINTER_ARRAY((size), (array), NS_IF_RELEASE)

/**
 * Helpful array length function for calculating the length of a
 * statically declared array.
 */

#define NS_ARRAY_LENGTH(array_) \
  (sizeof(array_)/sizeof(array_[0]))


#endif // nsMemory_h__