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+/* boost integer_traits.hpp header file
+ *
+ * Copyright Jens Maurer 2000
+ * 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)
+ *
+ * $Id: integer_traits.hpp 83381 2013-03-09 22:55:05Z eric_niebler $
+ *
+ * Idea by Beman Dawes, Ed Brey, Steve Cleary, and Nathan Myers
+ */
+
+//  See http://www.boost.org/libs/integer for documentation.
+
+
+#ifndef BOOST_INTEGER_TRAITS_HPP
+#define BOOST_INTEGER_TRAITS_HPP
+
+#include <ndnboost/config.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/limits.hpp>
+
+// These are an implementation detail and not part of the interface
+#include <limits.h>
+// we need wchar.h for WCHAR_MAX/MIN but not all platforms provide it,
+// and some may have <wchar.h> but not <cwchar> ...
+#if !defined(BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T) && (!defined(BOOST_NO_CWCHAR) || defined(sun) || defined(__sun) || defined(__QNX__))
+#include <wchar.h>
+#endif
+
+//
+// We simply cannot include this header on gcc without getting copious warnings of the kind:
+//
+// ../../../boost/integer_traits.hpp:164:66: warning: use of C99 long long integer constant
+//
+// And yet there is no other reasonable implementation, so we declare this a system header
+// to suppress these warnings.
+//
+#if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ >= 4)
+#pragma GCC system_header
+#endif
+
+namespace ndnboost {
+template<class T>
+class integer_traits : public std::numeric_limits<T>
+{
+public:
+  BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, is_integral = false);
+};
+
+namespace detail {
+template<class T, T min_val, T max_val>
+class integer_traits_base
+{
+public:
+  BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, is_integral = true);
+  BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(T, const_min = min_val);
+  BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(T, const_max = max_val);
+};
+
+#ifndef BOOST_NO_INCLASS_MEMBER_INITIALIZATION
+//  A definition is required even for integral static constants
+template<class T, T min_val, T max_val>
+const bool integer_traits_base<T, min_val, max_val>::is_integral;
+
+template<class T, T min_val, T max_val>
+const T integer_traits_base<T, min_val, max_val>::const_min;
+
+template<class T, T min_val, T max_val>
+const T integer_traits_base<T, min_val, max_val>::const_max;
+#endif
+
+} // namespace detail
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<bool>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<bool>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<bool, false, true>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<char>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<char>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<char, CHAR_MIN, CHAR_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<signed char>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<signed char>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<signed char, SCHAR_MIN, SCHAR_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<unsigned char>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<unsigned char>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<unsigned char, 0, UCHAR_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#ifndef BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T
+template<>
+class integer_traits<wchar_t>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<wchar_t>,
+    // Don't trust WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX with Mac OS X's native
+    // library: they are wrong!
+#if defined(WCHAR_MIN) && defined(WCHAR_MAX) && !defined(__APPLE__)
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<wchar_t, WCHAR_MIN, WCHAR_MAX>
+#elif defined(__BORLANDC__) || defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__MINGW32__) || (defined(__BEOS__) && defined(__GNUC__))
+    // No WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX, whar_t is short and unsigned:
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<wchar_t, 0, 0xffff>
+#elif (defined(__sgi) && (!defined(__SGI_STL_PORT) || __SGI_STL_PORT < 0x400))\
+    || (defined __APPLE__)\
+    || (defined(__OpenBSD__) && defined(__GNUC__))\
+    || (defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__GNUC__))\
+    || (defined(__FreeBSD__) && defined(__GNUC__))\
+    || (defined(__DragonFly__) && defined(__GNUC__))\
+    || (defined(__hpux) && defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ == 3) && !defined(__SGI_STL_PORT))
+    // No WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX, wchar_t has the same range as int.
+    //  - SGI MIPSpro with native library
+    //  - gcc 3.x on HP-UX
+    //  - Mac OS X with native library
+    //  - gcc on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<wchar_t, INT_MIN, INT_MAX>
+#elif defined(__hpux) && defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ == 2) && !defined(__SGI_STL_PORT)
+    // No WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX, wchar_t has the same range as unsigned int.
+    //  - gcc 2.95.x on HP-UX
+    // (also, std::numeric_limits<wchar_t> appears to return the wrong values).
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<wchar_t, 0, UINT_MAX>
+#else
+#error No WCHAR_MIN and WCHAR_MAX present, please adjust integer_traits<> for your compiler.
+#endif
+{ };
+#endif // BOOST_NO_INTRINSIC_WCHAR_T
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<short>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<short>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<short, SHRT_MIN, SHRT_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<unsigned short>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<unsigned short>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<unsigned short, 0, USHRT_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<int>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<int>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<int, INT_MIN, INT_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<unsigned int>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<unsigned int>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<unsigned int, 0, UINT_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<long>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<long>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<long, LONG_MIN, LONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits<unsigned long>
+  : public std::numeric_limits<unsigned long>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base<unsigned long, 0, ULONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#if !defined(BOOST_NO_INTEGRAL_INT64_T) && !defined(BOOST_NO_INT64_T)
+#if defined(ULLONG_MAX) && defined(BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG)
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::long_long_type, LLONG_MIN, LLONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type, 0, ULLONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#elif defined(ULONG_LONG_MAX) && defined(BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG)
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>,    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::long_long_type, LONG_LONG_MIN, LONG_LONG_MAX>{ };
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type, 0, ULONG_LONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#elif defined(ULONGLONG_MAX) && defined(BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG)
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::long_long_type, LONGLONG_MIN, LONGLONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type, 0, ULONGLONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#elif defined(_LLONG_MAX) && defined(_C2) && defined(BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG)
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::long_long_type, -_LLONG_MAX - _C2, _LLONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type, 0, _ULLONG_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#elif defined(BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG)
+//
+// we have long long but no constants, this happens for example with gcc in -ansi mode,
+// we'll just have to work out the values for ourselves (assumes 2's compliment representation):
+//
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::long_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::long_long_type, (1LL << (sizeof(::ndnboost::long_long_type) * CHAR_BIT - 1)), ~(1LL << (sizeof(::ndnboost::long_long_type) * CHAR_BIT - 1))>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< ::ndnboost::ulong_long_type, 0, ~0uLL>
+{ };
+
+#elif defined(BOOST_HAS_MS_INT64)
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< __int64>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< __int64>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< __int64, _I64_MIN, _I64_MAX>
+{ };
+
+template<>
+class integer_traits< unsigned __int64>
+  : public std::numeric_limits< unsigned __int64>,
+    public detail::integer_traits_base< unsigned __int64, 0, _UI64_MAX>
+{ };
+
+#endif
+#endif
+
+} // namespace ndnboost
+
+#endif /* BOOST_INTEGER_TRAITS_HPP */
+
+
+