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#ifndef _MFILE_
#define _MFILE_

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

// MFILE supports a primitive form of checkpointing.
// Write all your output (and restart file) to MFILEs.
// The output is buffered in memory.
// Then close or flush all the MFILEs;
// all the buffers will be flushed to disk, almost atomically.

class MFILE {
    char* buf;
    int len;
    FILE* f;
public:
    MFILE();
    ~MFILE();
    int open(const char* path, const char* mode);
    int _putchar(char);
    int puts(const char*);
    int vprintf(const char* format, va_list);
    int printf(const char* format, ...);
    size_t write(const void *, size_t size, size_t nitems);
    int close();
    int flush();
    long tell() const;
    void get_buf(char*&, int&);
};

#endif