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+/*
+ * Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef CMOCKA_PRIVATE_H_
+#define CMOCKA_PRIVATE_H_
+
+#include <cmocka.h>
+
+/** Free memory space */
+#define SAFE_FREE(x) do { if ((x) != NULL) {free(x); x=NULL;} } while(0)
+
+/** Zero a structure */
+#define ZERO_STRUCT(x) memset((char *)&(x), 0, sizeof(x))
+
+/** Zero a structure given a pointer to the structure */
+#define ZERO_STRUCTP(x) do { if ((x) != NULL) memset((char *)(x), 0, sizeof(*(x))); } while(0)
+
+/** Get the size of an array */
+#define ARRAY_SIZE(a) (sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]))
+
+/** Overwrite the complete string with 'X' */
+#define BURN_STRING(x) do { if ((x) != NULL) memset((x), 'X', strlen((x))); } while(0)
+
+/**
+ * This is a hack to fix warnings. The idea is to use this everywhere that we
+ * get the "discarding const" warning by the compiler. That doesn't actually
+ * fix the real issue, but marks the place and you can search the code for
+ * discard_const.
+ *
+ * Please use this macro only when there is no other way to fix the warning.
+ * We should use this function in only in a very few places.
+ *
+ * Also, please call this via the discard_const_p() macro interface, as that
+ * makes the return type safe.
+ */
+#define discard_const(ptr) ((void *)((uintptr_t)(ptr)))
+
+/**
+ * Type-safe version of discard_const
+ */
+#define discard_const_p(type, ptr) ((type *)discard_const(ptr))
+
+#endif /* CMOCKA_PRIVATE_H_ */