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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2004
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# on the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub
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+# the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
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+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+# IN THE SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Authors:
+# Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
+
+# Trivial shell script to search the API definition file and print out the
+# next numerically available API entry-point offset. This could probably
+# be made smarter, but it would be better to use the existin Python
+# framework to do that. This is just a quick-and-dirty hack.
+
+num=$(grep 'offset="' gl_API.xml |\
+ sed 's/.\+ offset="//g;s/".*$//g' |\
+ grep -v '?' |\
+ sort -rn |\
+ head -1)
+
+echo $((num + 1))