//========= Copyright Valve Corporation, All rights reserved. ============//
//
// Purpose: Pool of all per-level strings. Allocates memory for strings,
//			consolodating duplicates. The memory is freed on behalf of
//clients 			at level transition. Strings are of type string_t.
//
// $NoKeywords: $
//=============================================================================//

#ifndef GAMESTRINGPOOL_H
#define GAMESTRINGPOOL_H

#if defined(_WIN32)
#pragma once
#endif

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// String allocation
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
string_t AllocPooledString(const char *pszValue);
string_t AllocPooledString_StaticConstantStringPointer(
    const char *pszGlobalConstValue);
string_t FindPooledString(const char *pszValue);

#define AssertIsValidString(s)                                      \
    AssertMsg(s == NULL_STRING || s == FindPooledString(STRING(s)), \
              "Invalid string " #s);

#ifndef GC
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// String system accessor
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
class IGameSystem;

IGameSystem *GameStringSystem();
#endif  // #ifndef GC

#endif  // GAMESTRINGPOOL_H