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// Helper function for using Cocoa with Posix threading.

#import <assert.h>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

#import "talk/base/maccocoathreadhelper.h"

// A dummy thread object which essentially does nothing.
// This is used in InitCocoaMultiThreading method.
@interface DummyThreadObject : NSObject {
}

+ (void)dummyFunc:(NSObject*)obj;

@end

@implementation DummyThreadObject

+ (void)dummyFunc:(NSObject*)obj {
  // nothing to do
}

@end

namespace talk_base {

// Cocoa must be "put into multithreading mode" before Cocoa functionality can
// be used on POSIX threads. The way to do that is to spawn one thread that may
// immediately exit.
void InitCocoaMultiThreading() {
  if ([NSThread isMultiThreaded] == NO) {
    // The sole purpose of this autorelease pool is to avoid a console
    // message on Leopard that tells us we're autoreleasing the thread
    // with no autorelease pool in place; we can't set up an autorelease
    // pool before this, because this is executed from an initializer,
    // which is run before main.  This means we leak an autorelease pool,
    // and one thread, and if other objects are set up in initializers after
    // this they'll be silently added to this pool and never released.

    // Doing NSAutoreleasePool* hack = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    // causes unused variable error.
    NSAutoreleasePool* hack;
    hack = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(dummyFunc:)
                             toTarget:[DummyThreadObject class]
                           withObject:nil];
  }

  assert([NSThread isMultiThreaded]);
}

}  // namespace talk_base