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+// -*- C++ -*-
+
+//=============================================================================
+/**
+ *  @file    String_Base_Const.h
+ *
+ *  $Id$
+ *
+ *  @author Nanbor Wang <nanbor@cs.wustl.edu>
+ */
+//=============================================================================
+
+#ifndef ACE_STRING_BASE_CONST_H
+#define ACE_STRING_BASE_CONST_H
+
+#include /**/ "ace/pre.h"
+
+#include /**/ "ace/ACE_export.h"
+#include "ace/Malloc_Base.h"
+
+#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
+# pragma once
+#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */
+
+
+ACE_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+/**
+ * @class ACE_String_Base_Const
+ *
+ * @brief This class defines a constant for ACE_String_Base
+ *        which originally was there to circumvent a bug in SunCC 6.0.
+ *        This could be moved to ACE_String_Base but that
+ *        adds a lot of footprint to the user applications which
+ *        is not something we want.
+ */
+class ACE_Export ACE_String_Base_Const
+{
+public:
+
+  typedef ACE_Allocator::size_type size_type;
+
+  /// Constant that denotes case where no such character position
+  /// exists.
+  static size_type const npos;
+
+};
+
+ACE_END_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+#include /**/ "ace/post.h"
+#endif /* ACE_STRING_BASE_CONST_H */