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1*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #ifndef stringrp_h
2*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #define stringrp_h
3*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
4*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Martin C. Shepherd.
5*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
6*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * All rights reserved.
7*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
8*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
9*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
10*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
11*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
12*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
13*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above
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15*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this
16*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * permission notice appear in supporting documentation.
17*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  *
18*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
19*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
20*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
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29*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use
30*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization
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32*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
33*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
34*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #pragma ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"
35*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
36*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
37*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * StringGroup objects provide memory for modules that need to
38*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * allocate lots of small strings without needing to free any of them
39*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * individually, but rather is happy to free them all at the same
40*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * time. Taking advantage of these properties, StringGroup objects
41*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * avoid the heap fragmentation that tends to occur when lots of small
42*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * strings are allocated directly from the heap and later free'd. They
43*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * do this by allocating a list of large character arrays in each of
44*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * which multiple strings are stored. Thus instead of allocating lots
45*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * of small strings, a few large character arrays are allocated. When
46*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * the strings are free'd on mass, this list of character arrays is
47*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * maintained, ready for subsequent use in recording another set of
48*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * strings.
49*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
50*0Sstevel@tonic-gate typedef struct StringGroup StringGroup;
51*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
52*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
53*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * The following constructor allocates a string-allocation object.
54*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * The segment_size argument specifies how long each string segment
55*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * array should be. This should be at least 10 times the length of
56*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * the average string to be recorded in the string group, and
57*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * sets the length of the longest string that can be stored.
58*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
59*0Sstevel@tonic-gate StringGroup *_new_StringGroup(int segment_size);
60*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
61*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
62*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Delete all of the strings that are currently stored by a specified
63*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * StringGroup object.
64*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
65*0Sstevel@tonic-gate void _clr_StringGroup(StringGroup *sg);
66*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
67*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
68*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Make a copy of the specified string, returning a pointer to
69*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * the copy, or NULL if there was insufficient memory. If the
70*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * remove_escapes argument is non-zero, backslashes that escape
71*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * other characters will be removed.
72*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
73*0Sstevel@tonic-gate char *_sg_store_string(StringGroup *sg, const char *string, int remove_escapes);
74*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
75*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
76*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Allocate memory for a string of a given length.
77*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
78*0Sstevel@tonic-gate char *_sg_alloc_string(StringGroup *sg, int length);
79*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
80*0Sstevel@tonic-gate /*
81*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * Delete a StringGroup object (and all of the strings that it
82*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  * contains).
83*0Sstevel@tonic-gate  */
84*0Sstevel@tonic-gate StringGroup *_del_StringGroup(StringGroup *sg);
85*0Sstevel@tonic-gate 
86*0Sstevel@tonic-gate #endif
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