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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_COMPHELPER_NEWARRAY_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_COMPHELPER_NEWARRAY_HXX
+
+#include <limits>
+#include <new>
+#include <stddef.h>
+
+namespace comphelper {
+
+template<typename T> T *
+newArray_null(size_t const n) noexcept
+{
+    if ((::std::numeric_limits<size_t>::max() / sizeof(T)) <= n) {
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    return new (::std::nothrow) T[n];
+}
+
+} // namespace comphelper
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_COMPHELPER_NEWARRAY_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */