/* Base class of intrusively reference-counted objects.
   Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This file is part of GDB.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#ifndef REFCOUNTED_OBJECT_H
#define REFCOUNTED_OBJECT_H

/* Base class of intrusively reference-countable objects.
   Incrementing and decrementing the reference count is an external
   responsibility.  */

class refcounted_object
{
public:
  refcounted_object () = default;

  /* Increase the refcount.  */
  void incref ()
  {
    gdb_assert (m_refcount >= 0);
    m_refcount++;
  }

  /* Decrease the refcount.  */
  void decref ()
  {
    m_refcount--;
    gdb_assert (m_refcount >= 0);
  }

  int refcount () const { return m_refcount; }

private:
  DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (refcounted_object);

  /* The reference count.  */
  int m_refcount = 0;
};

#endif /* REFCOUNTED_OBJECT_H */