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+// (C) Copyright 2002-2008, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal.
+//
+// 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)
+//
+// 21 Ago 2002 (Created) Fernando Cacciola
+// 24 Dec 2007 (Refactored and worked around various compiler bugs) Fernando Cacciola, Niels Dekker
+// 23 May 2008 (Fixed operator= const issue, added initialized_value) Niels Dekker, Fernando Cacciola
+// 21 Ago 2008 (Added swap) Niels Dekker, Fernando Cacciola
+// 20 Feb 2009 (Fixed logical const-ness issues) Niels Dekker, Fernando Cacciola
+// 03 Apr 2010 (Added initialized<T>, suggested by Jeffrey Hellrung, fixing #3472) Niels Dekker
+// 30 May 2010 (Made memset call conditional, fixing #3869) Niels Dekker
+//
+#ifndef BOOST_UTILITY_VALUE_INIT_21AGO2002_HPP
+#define BOOST_UTILITY_VALUE_INIT_21AGO2002_HPP
+
+// Note: The implementation of ndnboost::value_initialized had to deal with the
+// fact that various compilers haven't fully implemented value-initialization.
+// The constructor of ndnboost::value_initialized<T> works around these compiler
+// issues, by clearing the bytes of T, before constructing the T object it
+// contains. More details on these issues are at libs/utility/value_init.htm
+
+#include <ndnboost/aligned_storage.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/config.hpp> // For BOOST_NO_COMPLETE_VALUE_INITIALIZATION.
+#include <ndnboost/detail/workaround.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/static_assert.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/type_traits/cv_traits.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/type_traits/alignment_of.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/swap.hpp>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <new>
+
+#ifdef BOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(push)
+#if _MSC_VER >= 1310
+// It is safe to ignore the following warning from MSVC 7.1 or higher:
+// "warning C4351: new behavior: elements of array will be default initialized"
+#pragma warning(disable: 4351)
+// It is safe to ignore the following MSVC warning, which may pop up when T is 
+// a const type: "warning C4512: assignment operator could not be generated".
+#pragma warning(disable: 4512)
+#endif
+#endif
+
+#ifdef BOOST_NO_COMPLETE_VALUE_INITIALIZATION
+  // Implementation detail: The macro BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND_SUGGESTED 
+  // suggests that a workaround should be applied, because of compiler issues 
+  // regarding value-initialization.
+  #define BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND_SUGGESTED
+#endif
+
+// Implementation detail: The macro BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND
+// switches the value-initialization workaround either on or off.
+#ifndef BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND
+  #ifdef BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND_SUGGESTED
+  #define BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND 1
+  #else
+  #define BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND 0
+  #endif
+#endif
+
+namespace ndnboost {
+
+template<class T>
+class initialized
+{
+  private :
+    struct wrapper
+    {
+#if !BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, BOOST_TESTED_AT(0x592))
+      typename
+#endif 
+      remove_const<T>::type data;
+
+      wrapper()
+      :
+      data()
+      {
+      }
+
+      wrapper(T const & arg)
+      :
+      data(arg)
+      {
+      }
+    };
+
+    mutable
+#if !BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, BOOST_TESTED_AT(0x592))
+      typename
+#endif 
+      aligned_storage<sizeof(wrapper), alignment_of<wrapper>::value>::type x;
+
+    wrapper * wrapper_address() const
+    {
+      return static_cast<wrapper *>( static_cast<void*>(&x));
+    }
+
+  public :
+
+    initialized()
+    {
+#if BOOST_DETAIL_VALUE_INIT_WORKAROUND
+      std::memset(&x, 0, sizeof(x));
+#endif
+      new (wrapper_address()) wrapper();
+    }
+
+    initialized(initialized const & arg)
+    {
+      new (wrapper_address()) wrapper( static_cast<wrapper const &>(*(arg.wrapper_address())));
+    }
+
+    explicit initialized(T const & arg)
+    {
+      new (wrapper_address()) wrapper(arg);
+    }
+
+    initialized & operator=(initialized const & arg)
+    {
+      // Assignment is only allowed when T is non-const.
+      BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT( ! is_const<T>::value );
+      *wrapper_address() = static_cast<wrapper const &>(*(arg.wrapper_address()));
+      return *this;
+    }
+
+    ~initialized()
+    {
+      wrapper_address()->wrapper::~wrapper();
+    }
+
+    T const & data() const
+    {
+      return wrapper_address()->data;
+    }
+
+    T& data()
+    {
+      return wrapper_address()->data;
+    }
+
+    void swap(initialized & arg)
+    {
+      ::ndnboost::swap( this->data(), arg.data() );
+    }
+
+    operator T const &() const
+    {
+      return wrapper_address()->data;
+    }
+
+    operator T&()
+    {
+      return wrapper_address()->data;
+    }
+
+} ;
+
+template<class T>
+T const& get ( initialized<T> const& x )
+{
+  return x.data() ;
+}
+
+template<class T>
+T& get ( initialized<T>& x )
+{
+  return x.data() ;
+}
+
+template<class T>
+void swap ( initialized<T> & lhs, initialized<T> & rhs )
+{
+  lhs.swap(rhs) ;
+}
+
+template<class T>
+class value_initialized
+{
+  private :
+
+    // initialized<T> does value-initialization by default.
+    initialized<T> m_data;
+
+  public :
+    
+    value_initialized()
+    :
+    m_data()
+    { }
+    
+    T const & data() const
+    {
+      return m_data.data();
+    }
+
+    T& data()
+    {
+      return m_data.data();
+    }
+
+    void swap(value_initialized & arg)
+    {
+      m_data.swap(arg.m_data);
+    }
+
+    operator T const &() const
+    {
+      return m_data;
+    }
+
+    operator T&()
+    {
+      return m_data;
+    }
+} ;
+
+
+template<class T>
+T const& get ( value_initialized<T> const& x )
+{
+  return x.data() ;
+}
+
+template<class T>
+T& get ( value_initialized<T>& x )
+{
+  return x.data() ;
+}
+
+template<class T>
+void swap ( value_initialized<T> & lhs, value_initialized<T> & rhs )
+{
+  lhs.swap(rhs) ;
+}
+
+
+class initialized_value_t
+{
+  public :
+    
+    template <class T> operator T() const
+    {
+      return initialized<T>().data();
+    }
+};
+
+initialized_value_t const initialized_value = {} ;
+
+
+} // namespace ndnboost
+
+#ifdef BOOST_MSVC
+#pragma warning(pop)
+#endif
+
+#endif