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+// Ceres Solver - A fast non-linear least squares minimizer
+// Copyright 2010, 2011, 2012 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+// http://code.google.com/p/ceres-solver/
+//
+// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+// modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+//
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+//
+// Author: keir@google.com (Keir Mierle)
+
+#ifndef CERES_INTERNAL_STL_UTIL_H_
+#define CERES_INTERNAL_STL_UTIL_H_
+
+namespace ceres {
+
+// STLDeleteContainerPointers()
+//  For a range within a container of pointers, calls delete
+//  (non-array version) on these pointers.
+// NOTE: for these three functions, we could just implement a DeleteObject
+// functor and then call for_each() on the range and functor, but this
+// requires us to pull in all of algorithm.h, which seems expensive.
+// For hash_[multi]set, it is important that this deletes behind the iterator
+// because the hash_set may call the hash function on the iterator when it is
+// advanced, which could result in the hash function trying to deference a
+// stale pointer.
+template <class ForwardIterator>
+void STLDeleteContainerPointers(ForwardIterator begin,
+                                ForwardIterator end) {
+  while (begin != end) {
+    ForwardIterator temp = begin;
+    ++begin;
+    delete *temp;
+  }
+}
+
+// STLDeleteElements() deletes all the elements in an STL container and clears
+// the container.  This function is suitable for use with a vector, set,
+// hash_set, or any other STL container which defines sensible begin(), end(),
+// and clear() methods.
+//
+// If container is NULL, this function is a no-op.
+//
+// As an alternative to calling STLDeleteElements() directly, consider
+// ElementDeleter (defined below), which ensures that your container's elements
+// are deleted when the ElementDeleter goes out of scope.
+template <class T>
+void STLDeleteElements(T *container) {
+  if (!container) return;
+  STLDeleteContainerPointers(container->begin(), container->end());
+  container->clear();
+}
+
+}  // namespace ceres
+
+#endif  // CERES_INTERNAL_STL_UTIL_H_