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     30  * ---
     31  * Author: Sanjay Ghemawat
     32  *
     33  * Module for heap-profiling.
     34  *
     35  * For full(er) information, see doc/heapprofile.html
     36  *
     37  * This module can be linked into your program with
     38  * no slowdown caused by this unless you activate the profiler
     39  * using one of the following methods:
     40  *
     41  *    1. Before starting the program, set the environment variable
     42  *       "HEAPPROFILE" to be the name of the file to which the profile
     43  *       data should be written.
     44  *
     45  *    2. Programmatically, start and stop the profiler using the
     46  *       routines "HeapProfilerStart(filename)" and "HeapProfilerStop()".
     47  *
     48  */
     49 
     50 #ifndef BASE_HEAP_PROFILER_H_
     51 #define BASE_HEAP_PROFILER_H_
     52 
     53 #include <stddef.h>
     54 
     55 /* Annoying stuff for windows; makes sure clients can import these functions */
     56 #ifndef PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL
     57 # ifdef _WIN32
     58 #   define PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL  __declspec(dllimport)
     59 # else
     60 #   define PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL
     61 # endif
     62 #endif
     63 
     64 /* All this code should be usable from within C apps. */
     65 #ifdef __cplusplus
     66 extern "C" {
     67 #endif
     68 
     69 /* Start profiling and arrange to write profile data to file names
     70  * of the form: "prefix.0000", "prefix.0001", ...
     71  */
     72 PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL void HeapProfilerStart(const char* prefix);
     73 
     74 /* Returns non-zero if we are currently profiling the heap.  (Returns
     75  * an int rather than a bool so it's usable from C.)  This is true
     76  * between calls to HeapProfilerStart() and HeapProfilerStop(), and
     77  * also if the program has been run with HEAPPROFILER, or some other
     78  * way to turn on whole-program profiling.
     79  */
     80 int IsHeapProfilerRunning();
     81 
     82 /* Stop heap profiling.  Can be restarted again with HeapProfilerStart(),
     83  * but the currently accumulated profiling information will be cleared.
     84  */
     85 PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL void HeapProfilerStop();
     86 
     87 /* Dump a profile now - can be used for dumping at a hopefully
     88  * quiescent state in your program, in order to more easily track down
     89  * memory leaks. Will include the reason in the logged message
     90  */
     91 PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL void HeapProfilerDump(const char *reason);
     92 
     93 /* Generate current heap profiling information.
     94  * Returns an empty string when heap profiling is not active.
     95  * The returned pointer is a '\0'-terminated string allocated using malloc()
     96  * and should be free()-ed as soon as the caller does not need it anymore.
     97  */
     98 PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL char* GetHeapProfile();
     99 
    100 #ifdef __cplusplus
    101 }  // extern "C"
    102 #endif
    103 
    104 #endif  /* BASE_HEAP_PROFILER_H_ */
    105