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package org.apache.harmony.luni.platform;
/**
* This is the interface that the memory watchers implement -- what they do with
* this information is largely undefined.
*
*/
public interface IMemorySpy {
public void alloc(PlatformAddress address);
// Has a veto: true == do free,false = don't
public boolean free(PlatformAddress address);
public void rangeCheck(PlatformAddress address, int offset, int length)
throws IndexOutOfBoundsException;
/**
* Requests that the given address is freed automatically when it becomes
* garbage. If the address is alredy freed, or has not been notified as
* allocated via this memory spy, then this call has no effect and completes
* quietly.
*
* @param address
* the address to be freed.
*/
public void autoFree(PlatformAddress address);
}