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diff --git a/index.h b/index.h
index 76c03c8..bc76900 100644
--- a/index.h
+++ b/index.h
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
 
 /*
  * Given the size of an existing data file and the number of
- * entries required in the index, calculate and return an upper
- * bound on the required size of the index file after an index has
- * been written on to the end of it.
+ * entries required in the index, return the file size required to
+ * store the fixed initial fragment of the index before the
+ * indexbuild functions are invoked.
  */
-off_t index_compute_size(off_t currentsize, int nodecount);
+off_t index_initial_size(off_t currentsize, int nodecount);
 
 /*
  * Build an index, given the address of a memory-mapped data file
@@ -19,13 +19,34 @@ off_t index_compute_size(off_t currentsize, int nodecount);
  * trie_file structures passed to tf must of course be within the
  * bounds of the memory-mapped file.
  *
+ * The "delta" parameter to indexbuild_new is filled in with the
+ * maximum size by which the index can ever grow in a single
+ * indexbuild_add call. This can be used, together with
+ * indexbuild_realsize, to detect when the index is about to get
+ * too big for its file and the file needs resizing.
+ *
+ * indexbuild_add adds a trie_file structure to the index.
+ * indexbuild_tag, called after that, causes the current state of
+ * the index to be preserved so that it can be queried later. It's
+ * idempotent, and will safely do nothing if called before
+ * indexbuild_add.
+ *
  * indexbuild_realsize returns the total amount of data _actually_
- * written into the file, to allow it to be truncated afterwards.
+ * written into the file, to allow it to be truncated afterwards,
+ * and to allow the caller of the indexbuild functions to know
+ * when the file is about to need to grow bigger during index
+ * building.
+ *
+ * indexbuild_rebase is used when the file has been
+ * re-memory-mapped at a different address (because it needs to
+ * grow).
  */
 typedef struct indexbuild indexbuild;
-indexbuild *indexbuild_new(void *t, off_t startoff, int nodecount);
+indexbuild *indexbuild_new(void *t, off_t startoff, int nodecount,
+			   size_t *delta);
 void indexbuild_add(indexbuild *ib, const struct trie_file *tf);
 void indexbuild_tag(indexbuild *ib);
+void indexbuild_rebase(indexbuild *ib, void *t);
 off_t indexbuild_realsize(indexbuild *ib);
 void indexbuild_free(indexbuild *ib);