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/* Protocol for Objective-C objects that keep a reference count
   Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Written by:  R. Andrew McCallum <mccallum@cs.rochester.edu>
   Dept. of Computer Science, U. of Rochester, Rochester, NY  14627

   This file is part of the GNU Objective-C Collection library.

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
   
   This library 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
   Library General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
   License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
   Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/ 

#ifndef __ReferenceCounting_h_INCLUDE_GNU
#define __ReferenceCounting_h_INCLUDE_GNU

@protocol ReferenceCounting

// QUERY REFERENCE COUNT;
- (unsigned) references;

// INCREMENT REFERENCE COUNT, RETURN SELF;
- addReference;

// DECREMENT REFERENCE COUNT, FREE IF ZERO;
- free;

@end

#endif /* __ReferenceCounting_h_INCLUDE_GNU */

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