// Copyright (c) 2001-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
// All rights reserved.
// This component and the accompanying materials are made available
// under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
// which accompanies this distribution, and is available
// at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
//
// Initial Contributors:
// Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
//
// Contributors:
//
// Description:
// StringTableSupport.h
// 
// This file contains defines needed by the auto-generated string table files.
// There is no reason why a manualy written cpp file outsinde the string pool
// implementation should include it.
//

#ifndef __STRINGTABLESUPPORT_H__
#define __STRINGTABLESUPPORT_H__

/**
@internalComponent
*/
#define _STLIT8(name,s) const static TStLitC8<sizeof(s)> name={sizeof(s)-1,s}

// A class that differs from TLitC only in that it does not have a
// dereference operator defined
//##ModelId=3B1E52AB0100
template <TInt S>
class TStLitC8
/**
@internalComponent
*/
	{
public:
	inline operator const TDesC8&() const;
	inline const TDesC8& operator()() const;
	inline operator const __TRefDesC8() const;
public:
	//##ModelId=3B1E52AB0120
	TUint iTypeLength;
	//##ModelId=3B1E52AB0117
	TText8 iBuf[__Align8(S)];
	};

template <TInt S>
inline const TDesC8& TStLitC8<S>::operator()() const
	{
	return *REINTERPRET_CAST(const TDesC8*,this);
	}

template <TInt S>
inline TStLitC8<S>::operator const TDesC8&() const
	{
	return *REINTERPRET_CAST(const TDesC8*,this);
	}

template <TInt S>
inline TStLitC8<S>::operator const __TRefDesC8() const
	{
	return *REINTERPRET_CAST(const TDesC8*,this);
	}

struct TStringTable;

#endif // __STRINGTABLESUPPORT_H__