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+/**
+ * slibc — Yet another C library
+ * Copyright © 2015 Mattias Andrée (maandree@member.fsf.org)
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program 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 General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#ifndef _SLIBC_ALLOC_H
+#define _SLIBC_ALLOC_H
+#ifndef _PORTABLE_SOURCE
+#include <slibc/version.h>
+
+
+
+#define __NEED_size_t
+#include <bits/types.h>
+
+
+/**
+ * This function is identical to `free`, except it is guaranteed not to
+ * override the memory segment with zeroes before freeing the allocation.
+ *
+ * @param segment The memory segment to free.
+ */
+void fast_free(void*);
+
+/**
+ * This function is identical to `free`, except it is guaranteed to
+ * override the memory segment with zeroes before freeing the allocation.
+ *
+ * @param segment The memory segment to free.
+ */
+void secure_free(void*);
+
+/**
+ * This function returns the allocation size of
+ * a memory segment.
+ *
+ * `p = malloc(n), allocsize(p)` will return `n`.
+ *
+ * @param segment The memory segment.
+ * @return The size of the memory segment, 0 on error.
+ *
+ * @throws EINVAL If `segment` is `NULL`.
+ * @throws EFAULT If `segment` is not a pointer to an allocation
+ * on the heap, or was not allocated with a function
+ * implemented in slibc.
+ */
+size_t allocsize(void*); /* TODO not implemented */
+
+
+/**
+ * This macro calls `fast_free` and then sets the pointer to `NULL`,
+ * so that another attempt to free the segment will not crash the process.
+ */
+#define FAST_FREE(segment) (fast_free(segment), (segment) = NULL);
+
+/**
+ * This macro calls `secure_free` and then sets the pointer to `NULL`,
+ * so that another attempt to free the segment will not crash the process.
+ */
+#define SECURE_FREE(segment) (secure_free(segment), (segment) = NULL);
+
+
+
+#endif
+#endif
+