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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+#include "common.h"
+#include "parse/t_base_type.h"
+
+t_type* g_type_void;
+t_type* g_type_string;
+t_type* g_type_binary;
+t_type* g_type_slist;
+t_type* g_type_bool;
+t_type* g_type_i8;
+t_type* g_type_i16;
+t_type* g_type_i32;
+t_type* g_type_i64;
+t_type* g_type_double;
+
+void initGlobals() {
+  g_type_void = new t_base_type("void", t_base_type::TYPE_VOID);
+  g_type_string = new t_base_type("string", t_base_type::TYPE_STRING);
+  g_type_binary = new t_base_type("string", t_base_type::TYPE_STRING);
+  ((t_base_type*)g_type_binary)->set_binary(true);
+  g_type_slist = new t_base_type("string", t_base_type::TYPE_STRING);
+  ((t_base_type*)g_type_slist)->set_string_list(true);
+  g_type_bool = new t_base_type("bool", t_base_type::TYPE_BOOL);
+  g_type_i8 = new t_base_type("i8", t_base_type::TYPE_I8);
+  g_type_i16 = new t_base_type("i16", t_base_type::TYPE_I16);
+  g_type_i32 = new t_base_type("i32", t_base_type::TYPE_I32);
+  g_type_i64 = new t_base_type("i64", t_base_type::TYPE_I64);
+  g_type_double = new t_base_type("double", t_base_type::TYPE_DOUBLE);
+}
+
+void clearGlobals() {
+  delete g_type_void;
+  delete g_type_string;
+  delete g_type_bool;
+  delete g_type_i8;
+  delete g_type_i16;
+  delete g_type_i32;
+  delete g_type_i64;
+  delete g_type_double;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Those are not really needed for plugins but causes link errors without
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The location of the last parsed doctext comment.
+ */
+int g_doctext_lineno;
+int g_program_doctext_lineno = 0;
+PROGDOCTEXT_STATUS g_program_doctext_status = INVALID;