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+/*
+ Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
+ Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
+ Copyright (C) 2008 Marco Costalba
+
+ Stockfish 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.
+
+ Stockfish 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/>.
+*/
+
+
+#if !defined(APPLICATION_H_INCLUDED)
+#define APPLICATION_H_INCLUDED
+
+
+/// Singleton class used to housekeep memory and global resources
+/// so to be sure we always leave in a clean state.
+
+class Application {
+
+ Application();
+ Application(const Application&);
+
+public:
+ static void initialize();
+ static void exit_with_failure();
+
+ ~Application();
+
+private:
+ static Application& instance();
+
+ void init();
+ void deallocateAll();
+};
+
+#endif // !defined(APPLICATION_H_INCLUDED)