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    This file is part of Threading Building Blocks. Threading Building Blocks is free software;
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*/

#ifndef __TBB_aligned_space_H
#define __TBB_aligned_space_H

#include "tbb_stddef.h"
#include "tbb_machine.h"

namespace tbb {

//! Block of space aligned sufficiently to construct an array T with N elements.
/** The elements are not constructed or destroyed by this class.
    @ingroup memory_allocation */
template<typename T,size_t N=1>
class aligned_space {
private:
    typedef __TBB_TypeWithAlignmentAtLeastAsStrict(T) element_type;
    element_type array[(sizeof(T)*N+sizeof(element_type)-1)/sizeof(element_type)];
public:
    //! Pointer to beginning of array
    T* begin() {return internal::punned_cast<T*>(this);}

    //! Pointer to one past last element in array.
    T* end() {return begin()+N;}
};

} // namespace tbb 

#endif /* __TBB_aligned_space_H */
