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+// (C) Copyright 2008 CodeRage, LLC (turkanis at coderage dot com)
+// (C) Copyright 2003-2007 Jonathan Turkanis
+// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+// file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt.)
+
+// See http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams for documentation.
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_CHAR_TRAITS_HPP_INCLUDED
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_CHAR_TRAITS_HPP_INCLUDED
+
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1020)
+# pragma once
+#endif 
+
+#include <ndnboost/config.hpp>
+#include <cstddef>
+#include <cstdio>  // EOF.
+#include <string>  // std::char_traits.
+#include <ndnboost/iostreams/detail/char_traits.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/iostreams/detail/config/wide_streams.hpp>
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_WIDE_STREAMS
+# include <cwchar>
+#endif
+
+#ifdef NDNBOOST_NO_STDC_NAMESPACE
+namespace std { using ::wint_t; }
+#endif
+
+namespace ndnboost { namespace iostreams {
+
+// Dinkumware that comes with QNX Momentics 6.3.0, 4.0.2, incorrectly defines
+// the EOF and WEOF macros to not std:: qualify the wint_t type (and so does
+// Sun C++ 5.8 + STLport 4). Fix by placing the def in this scope.
+// NOTE: Use NDNBOOST_WORKAROUND?
+#if (defined(__QNX__) && defined(NDNBOOST_DINKUMWARE_STDLIB))  \
+    || defined(__SUNPRO_CC)
+using ::std::wint_t;
+#endif
+
+const int WOULD_BLOCK = (int) (EOF - 1);
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_WIDE_STREAMS
+const std::wint_t WWOULD_BLOCK = (std::wint_t) (WEOF - 1);
+#endif
+
+template<typename Ch>
+struct char_traits;
+
+template<>
+struct char_traits<char> : NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_CHAR_TRAITS(char) {
+    static char newline() { return '\n'; }
+    static int good() { return '\n'; }
+    static int would_block() { return WOULD_BLOCK; }
+    static bool is_good(int c) { return c != EOF && c != WOULD_BLOCK; }
+    static bool is_eof(int c) { return c == EOF; }
+    static bool would_block(int c) { return c == WOULD_BLOCK; }
+};
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_WIDE_STREAMS
+template<>
+struct char_traits<wchar_t> : std::char_traits<wchar_t> {
+    static wchar_t newline() { return L'\n'; }
+    static std::wint_t good() { return L'\n'; }
+    static std::wint_t would_block() { return WWOULD_BLOCK; }
+    static bool is_good(std::wint_t c) { return c != WEOF && c != WWOULD_BLOCK; }
+    static bool is_eof(std::wint_t c) { return c == WEOF; }
+    static bool would_block(std::wint_t c) { return c == WWOULD_BLOCK; }
+};
+#endif
+
+} } // End namespaces iostreams, boost.
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_CHAR_TRAITS_HPP_INCLUDED