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+#ifndef LLVM_CLANG_FORMAT_PARSING_H
+#define LLVM_CLANG_FORMAT_PARSING_H
+
+#include "clang/Analysis/Analyses/FormatString.h"
+#include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
+#include "clang/AST/Type.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
+
+template <typename T>
+class UpdateOnReturn {
+  T &ValueToUpdate;
+  const T &ValueToCopy;
+public:
+  UpdateOnReturn(T &valueToUpdate, const T &valueToCopy)
+    : ValueToUpdate(valueToUpdate), ValueToCopy(valueToCopy) {}
+
+  ~UpdateOnReturn() {
+    ValueToUpdate = ValueToCopy;
+  }
+};
+
+namespace clang {
+namespace analyze_format_string {
+  
+OptionalAmount ParseAmount(const char *&Beg, const char *E);
+OptionalAmount ParseNonPositionAmount(const char *&Beg, const char *E,
+                                      unsigned &argIndex);
+
+OptionalAmount ParsePositionAmount(FormatStringHandler &H,
+                                   const char *Start, const char *&Beg,
+                                   const char *E, PositionContext p);
+  
+bool ParseFieldWidth(FormatStringHandler &H,
+                     FormatSpecifier &CS,
+                     const char *Start, const char *&Beg, const char *E,
+                     unsigned *argIndex);
+    
+bool ParseArgPosition(FormatStringHandler &H,
+                      FormatSpecifier &CS, const char *Start,
+                      const char *&Beg, const char *E);
+
+/// Returns true if a LengthModifier was parsed and installed in the
+/// FormatSpecifier& argument, and false otherwise.
+bool ParseLengthModifier(FormatSpecifier &FS, const char *&Beg, const char *E);
+  
+template <typename T> class SpecifierResult {
+  T FS;
+  const char *Start;
+  bool Stop;
+public:
+  SpecifierResult(bool stop = false)
+  : Start(0), Stop(stop) {}
+  SpecifierResult(const char *start,
+                  const T &fs)
+  : FS(fs), Start(start), Stop(false) {}
+  
+  const char *getStart() const { return Start; }
+  bool shouldStop() const { return Stop; }
+  bool hasValue() const { return Start != 0; }
+  const T &getValue() const {
+    assert(hasValue());
+    return FS;
+  }
+  const T &getValue() { return FS; }
+};
+  
+} // end analyze_format_string namespace
+} // end clang namespace
+
+#endif
+