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-// Copyright David Abrahams 2002.
-// 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)
-#ifndef CHAR_ARRAY_DWA2002129_HPP
-# define CHAR_ARRAY_DWA2002129_HPP
-
-namespace boost { namespace python { namespace detail { 
-
-// This little package is used to transmit the number of arguments
-// from the helper functions below to the sizeof() expression below.
-// Because we can never have an array of fewer than 1 element, we
-// add 1 to n and then subtract 1 from the result of sizeof() below.
-template <int n>
-struct char_array
-{
-    char elements[n+1];
-};
-
-}}} // namespace boost::python::detail
-
-#endif // CHAR_ARRAY_DWA2002129_HPP