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+/*
+ Copyright 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization
+ dedicated to making software imaging solutions freely available.
+
+ You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+
+ MagickCore image coder methods.
+*/
+#ifndef _MAGICKCORE_CODER_H
+#define _MAGICKCORE_CODER_H
+
+#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+typedef struct _CoderInfo
+{
+ char
+ *path,
+ *magick,
+ *name;
+
+ MagickBooleanType
+ stealth;
+
+ struct _CoderInfo
+ *previous,
+ *next; /* deprecated, use GetCoderInfoList() */
+
+ unsigned long
+ signature;
+} CoderInfo;
+
+extern MagickExport char
+ **GetCoderList(const char *,unsigned long *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+extern MagickExport const CoderInfo
+ *GetCoderInfo(const char *,ExceptionInfo *),
+ **GetCoderInfoList(const char *,unsigned long *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+extern MagickExport MagickBooleanType
+ ListCoderInfo(FILE *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+MagickExport void
+ DestroyCoderList(void);
+
+#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif