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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_IOS_HPP_INCLUDED
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_IOS_HPP_INCLUDED
+
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1020)
+# pragma once
+#endif              
+                 
+#include <ndnboost/config.hpp> // NDNBOOST_MSVC.
+#include <ndnboost/detail/workaround.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/iostreams/detail/config/wide_streams.hpp>
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_STREAM_TEMPLATES
+# if !NDNBOOST_WORKAROUND(__MWERKS__, <= 0x3003)
+#  include <ios>
+# else
+#  include <istream>
+#  include <ostream>
+# endif
+#else 
+# include <exception>
+# include <iosfwd>
+#endif 
+
+namespace ndnboost { namespace iostreams { namespace detail {
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_STREAM_TEMPLATES //--------------------------------//
+# define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_IOS(ch, tr)  std::basic_ios< ch, tr >
+# if !NDNBOOST_WORKAROUND(__MWERKS__, <= 0x3003) && \
+     !NDNBOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, < 0x600) && \
+     !NDNBOOST_WORKAROUND(NDNBOOST_MSVC, < 1300) \
+     /**/
+
+#define NDNBOOST_IOS                std::ios
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_FAILURE  std::ios::failure
+
+# else
+
+#define NDNBOOST_IOS                std::ios_base
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_FAILURE  std::ios_base::failure
+
+# endif
+#else // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_STREAM_TEMPLATES //-----------------------//
+
+#define NDNBOOST_IOS                          std::ios
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_BASIC_IOS(ch, tr)  std::ios
+#define NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_FAILURE            ndnboost::iostreams::detail::failure
+
+class failure : std::exception {    
+public:
+    explicit failure(const std::string& what_arg) : what_(what_arg) { }
+    const char* what() const { return what_.c_str(); }
+private:
+    std::string what_;
+};
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_STREAM_TEMPLATES //----------------------//
+
+} } } // End namespace failure, iostreams, boost.
+
+#endif // #ifndef NDNBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DETAIL_IOS_HPP_INCLUDED