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+// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#ifndef PDFIUM_THIRD_PARTY_BASE_STL_UTIL_H_
+#define PDFIUM_THIRD_PARTY_BASE_STL_UTIL_H_
+
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace pdfium {
+
+// To treat a possibly-empty vector as an array, use these functions.
+// If you know the array will never be empty, you can use &*v.begin()
+// directly, but that is undefined behaviour if |v| is empty.
+template <typename T>
+inline T* vector_as_array(std::vector<T>* v) {
+  return v->empty() ? nullptr : &*v->begin();
+}
+
+template <typename T>
+inline const T* vector_as_array(const std::vector<T>* v) {
+  return v->empty() ? nullptr : &*v->begin();
+}
+
+}  // namespace pdfium
+
+#endif  // PDFIUM_THIRD_PARTY_BASE_STL_UTIL_H_