// Copyright (C) 2002 Brad King (brad.king@kitware.com) 

 //                    Douglas Gregor (gregod@cs.rpi.edu)

 //                    Peter Dimov

 //

 // 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)

 // For more information, see http://www.boost.org

 #ifndef BOOST_UTILITY_ADDRESSOF_HPP

 # define BOOST_UTILITY_ADDRESSOF_HPP

 # include <boost/config.hpp>

 # include <boost/detail/workaround.hpp>

 namespace boost {

 // Do not make addressof() inline. Breaks MSVC 7. (Peter Dimov)

 // VC7 strips const from nested classes unless we add indirection here

 # if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, == 1300)

 template<class T> struct _addp

 {

     typedef T * type;

 };

 template <typename T> typename _addp<T>::type

 # else

 template <typename T> T*

 # endif

 addressof(T& v)

 {

   return reinterpret_cast<T*>(

        &const_cast<char&>(reinterpret_cast<const volatile char &>(v)));

 }

 // Borland doesn't like casting an array reference to a char reference

 // but these overloads work around the problem.

 # if BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, BOOST_TESTED_AT(0x564))

 template<typename T,std::size_t N>

 T (*addressof(T (&t)[N]))[N]

 {

    return reinterpret_cast<T(*)[N]>(&t);

 }

 template<typename T,std::size_t N>

 const T (*addressof(const T (&t)[N]))[N]

 {

    return reinterpret_cast<const T(*)[N]>(&t);

 }

 # endif

 }

 #endif // BOOST_UTILITY_ADDRESSOF_HPP