#ifndef VDL_ALLOC_H

#define VDL_ALLOC_H

/**

 * A thin wrapper around the global variable which holds the 

 * allocator state.

 */

#include <unistd.h> // for size_t

#ifdef __cplusplus

extern "C" {

#endif

void vdl_alloc_initialize (void);

void vdl_alloc_destroy (void);

void *vdl_alloc_malloc (size_t size);

void vdl_alloc_free (void *buffer);

#define vdl_alloc_new(type) \

  (type *) vdl_alloc_malloc (sizeof (type))

#define vdl_alloc_delete(v) \

  vdl_alloc_free (v)

#ifdef __cplusplus

}

#endif

#endif /* VDL_ALLOC_H */