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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span>
<span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">is_pod</span> <span class="special">:</span> <span class="keyword">public</span> <em class="replaceable"><code><a class="link" href="integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">true_type</a>-or-<a class="link" href="integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">false_type</a></code></em> <span class="special">{};</span>
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<span class="bold"><strong>Inherits:</strong></span> If T is a (possibly cv-qualified)
POD type then inherits from <a class="link" href="integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">true_type</a>,
otherwise inherits from <a class="link" href="integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">false_type</a>.
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<p>
POD stands for "Plain old data". Arithmetic types, and enumeration
types, a pointers and pointer to members are all PODs. Classes and unions
can also be POD's if they have no non-static data members that are of reference
or non-POD type, no user defined constructors, no user defined assignment
operators, no private or protected non-static data members, no virtual functions
and no base classes. Finally, a cv-qualified POD is still a POD, as is an
array of PODs.
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<span class="bold"><strong>C++ Standard Reference:</strong></span> 3.9p10 and 9p4 (Note
that POD's are also aggregates, see 8.5.1).
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<span class="bold"><strong>Compiler Compatibility:</strong></span> If the compiler
does not support partial-specialization of class templates, then this template
can not be used with function types.
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<p>
Without some (as yet unspecified) help from the compiler, is<span class="underline">pod
will never report that a class or struct is a POD; this is always safe, if
possibly sub-optimal. Currently (May 2005) only MWCW 9 and Visual C++ 8 have
the necessary compiler-</span>_intrinsics.
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<span class="bold"><strong>Header:</strong></span> <code class="computeroutput"> <span class="preprocessor">#include</span>
<span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">type_traits</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">is_pod</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span></code>
or <code class="computeroutput"> <span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">type_traits</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span></code>
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<span class="bold"><strong>Examples:</strong></span>
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<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_pod</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">int</span><span class="special">></span></code>
inherits from <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">true_type</a></code>.
</p></blockquote></div>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_pod</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">char</span><span class="special">*>::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></code> is the type <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="integral_constant.html" title="integral_constant">true_type</a></code>.
</p></blockquote></div>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_pod</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="special">(*)(</span><span class="keyword">long</span><span class="special">)>::</span><span class="identifier">value</span></code> is an integral constant expression
that evaluates to <span class="emphasis"><em>true</em></span>.
</p></blockquote></div>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_pod</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">MyClass</span><span class="special">>::</span><span class="identifier">value</span></code> is an integral constant expression
that evaluates to <span class="emphasis"><em>false</em></span>.
</p></blockquote></div>
<div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">is_pod</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">>::</span><span class="identifier">value_type</span></code> is the type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">bool</span></code>.
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