+#include <talloc.h>
+
+#include "xutil.h"
+
+/* Thanks to Andrew Tridgell's (SAMBA's) talloc for this definition of
+ * unlikely. The talloc source code comes to us via the GNU LGPL v. 3.
+ */
+/* these macros gain us a few percent of speed on gcc */
+#if (__GNUC__ >= 3)
+/* the strange !! is to ensure that __builtin_expect() takes either 0 or 1
+ as its first argument */
+#ifndef likely
+#define likely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)
+#endif
+#ifndef unlikely
+#define unlikely(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
+#endif
+#else
+#ifndef likely
+#define likely(x) (x)
+#endif
+#ifndef unlikely
+#define unlikely(x) (x)
+#endif
+#endif
+
+/* These value numbers are chosen to be sup compatible (for now at
+ * least). */
+
+typedef enum {
+ NOTMUCH_VALUE_MESSAGE_ID = 0,
+ NOTMUCH_VALUE_THREAD = 1,
+ NOTMUCH_VALUE_DATE = 2
+} notmuch_value_t;
+
+/* Xapian complains if we provide a term longer than this. */
+#define NOTMUCH_MAX_TERM 245
+
+/* message.cc */
+
+notmuch_message_t *
+_notmuch_message_create (notmuch_results_t *owner,
+ notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
+ unsigned int doc_id);
+
+/* Lookup a prefix value by name. */
+const char *
+_find_prefix (const char *name);
+
+/* message-file.c */
+
+/* XXX: I haven't decided yet whether these will actually get exported
+ * into the public interface in notmuch.h
+ */
+
+typedef struct _notmuch_message_file notmuch_message_file_t;
+
+/* Open a file containing a single email message.
+ *
+ * The caller should call notmuch_message_close when done with this.
+ *
+ * Returns NULL if any error occurs.
+ */
+notmuch_message_file_t *
+notmuch_message_file_open (const char *filename);