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+/* Copyright (c) 2012-2017. The SimGrid Team. All rights reserved. */
+
+/* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the license (GNU LGPL) which comes with this package. */
+
+#include "iterator.h"
+
+/* http://stackoverflow.com/a/3348142 */
+/**************************************/
+
+/* Allocates and initializes a new xbt_dynar iterator for list, using criteria_fn as iteration criteria
+ criteria_fn: given an array size, it must generate a list containing the indices of every item in some order */
+xbt_dynar_iterator_t xbt_dynar_iterator_new(xbt_dynar_t list, xbt_dynar_t (*criteria_fn)(int))
+{
+ xbt_dynar_iterator_t it = xbt_new(xbt_dynar_iterator_s, 1);
+
+ it->list = list;
+ it->length = xbt_dynar_length(list);
+ it->indices_list = criteria_fn(it->length); // Creates and fills a dynar of int
+ it->criteria_fn = criteria_fn;
+ it->current = 0;
+
+ return it;
+}
+
+/* Returns the next element iterated by iterator it, NULL if there are no more elements */
+void* xbt_dynar_iterator_next(xbt_dynar_iterator_t it)
+{
+ if (it->current >= it->length) {
+ return NULL;
+ } else {
+ int* next = xbt_dynar_get_ptr(it->indices_list, it->current);
+ it->current++;
+ return xbt_dynar_get_ptr(it->list, *next);
+ }
+}
+
+void xbt_dynar_iterator_delete(xbt_dynar_iterator_t it)
+{
+ xbt_dynar_free_container(&(it->indices_list));
+ xbt_free_ref(&it);
+}
+
+xbt_dynar_t forward_indices_list(int size)
+{
+ xbt_dynar_t indices_list = xbt_dynar_new(sizeof(int), NULL);
+ for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
+ xbt_dynar_push_as(indices_list, int, i);
+ return indices_list;
+}