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/*
 *************************************************************************************
 * \file
 *    golomb.h
 *
 * \brief
 *    Description
 *
 * \author
 *    Main contributors (see contributors.h for copyright, address and affiliation details)
 *     -  Achim Dahlhoff      <dahlhoff@ient.rwth-aachen.de>
 *
 * \date
 *    Fri Mar 8 2002
 *
 *  copyright : (C) 2002      Institut und Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik
 *                            RWTH Aachen University
 *                            52072 Aachen
 *                            Germany
 *************************************************************************************
 */

#ifndef GOLOMB_H
#define GOLOMB_H

#include "global.h"

void encode_golomb_word(unsigned int symbol,unsigned int grad0,unsigned int max_levels,unsigned int *res_bits,unsigned int *res_len);	//returns symbol coded. (might be cropped if max_levels is too small)
void encode_multilayer_golomb_word(unsigned int symbol,const unsigned int *grad,const unsigned int *max_levels,unsigned int *res_bits,unsigned int *res_len);	//terminate using a max_levels value of 30UL.

unsigned int decode_golomb_word(const unsigned char **buffer,unsigned int *bitoff,unsigned int grad0,unsigned int max_levels);
unsigned int decode_multilayer_golomb_word(const unsigned char **buffer,unsigned int *bitoff,const unsigned int *grad0,const unsigned int *max_levels);


int writeSyntaxElement_GOLOMB(SyntaxElement *se, DataPartition *this_dataPart);


#endif
