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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);
}