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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_DETAIL_BROKEN_OVERLOAD_RESOLUTION_HPP_INCLUDED
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_BROKEN_OVERLOAD_RESOLUTION_HPP_INCLUDED
+
+#include <ndnboost/config.hpp>                     // NDNBOOST_STATIC_CONSANT.
+#include <ndnboost/mpl/bool.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/type_traits/is_same.hpp>
+
+namespace ndnboost { namespace iostreams { namespace detail {
+
+template<typename Device, typename U>
+struct forward_impl {
+    NDNBOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, value =
+        ( !is_same< U, Device >::value &&
+          !is_same< U, reference_wrapper<Device> >::value ));
+};
+
+template<typename Device, typename U>
+struct forward
+    : mpl::bool_<forward_impl<Device, U>::value>
+    { };
+
+} } } // End namespaces detail, iostreams, boost.
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_BROKEN_OVERLOAD_RESOLUTION_HPP_INCLUDED