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authorTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2014-08-19 17:10:03 -0400
committerTavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com>2015-10-25 11:03:56 -0400
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Modularize the libdimension codebase.
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+/*************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Tavian Barnes <tavianator@tavianator.com> *
+ * *
+ * This file is part of The Dimension Library. *
+ * *
+ * The Dimension Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/ *
+ * or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License *
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the *
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version. *
+ * *
+ * The Dimension Library is distributed in the hope that it will be *
+ * useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty *
+ * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU *
+ * Lesser General Public License for more details. *
+ * *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public *
+ * License along with this program. If not, see *
+ * <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. *
+ *************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Dynamic memory. dmnsn_malloc() and friends behave like their
+ * non-dmnsn_-prefixed counterparts, but never return NULL. If allocation
+ * fails, they instead call dmnsn_error().
+ */
+
+#ifndef DMNSN_BASE_H
+#error "Please include <dimension/base.h> instead of this header directly."
+#endif
+
+#include <stddef.h> /* For size_t */
+
+/**
+ * Allocate some memory. Always use dmnsn_free() to free this memory, never
+ * free().
+ * @param[in] size The size of the memory block to allocate.
+ * @return The allocated memory area.
+ */
+void *dmnsn_malloc(size_t size);
+
+/**
+ * Allocate some memory. Always use dmnsn_free() to free this memory, never
+ * free().
+ * @param[in] type The type of the memory block to allocate.
+ * @return The allocated memory area.
+ */
+#define DMNSN_MALLOC(type) ((type *)dmnsn_malloc(sizeof(type)))
+
+/**
+ * Expand or shrink an allocation created by dmnsn_malloc().
+ * @param[in] ptr The block to resize.
+ * @param[in] size The new size.
+ * @return The resized memory area.
+ */
+void *dmnsn_realloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
+
+/**
+ * Duplicate a string.
+ * @param[in] s The string to duplicate.
+ * @return A string with the same contents as \p s, suitable for release by
+ * dmnsn_free().
+ */
+char *dmnsn_strdup(const char *s);
+
+/**
+ * Free memory allocated by dmnsn_malloc() or dmnsn_strdup().
+ * @param[in] ptr The memory block to free, or NULL.
+ */
+void dmnsn_free(void *ptr);