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+// -*- C++ -*-
+
+//=============================================================================
+/**
+ *  @file    Null_RefCount_Policy.h
+ *
+ *  $Id$
+ *
+ *  Header file for TAO's reference count policy (unrelated to CORBA
+ *  policies).
+ *
+ *  @author Ossama Othman <ossama@dre.vanderbilt.edu>
+ */
+//=============================================================================
+
+#ifndef TAO_NULL_REFCOUNT_POLICY_H
+#define TAO_NULL_REFCOUNT_POLICY_H
+
+#include /**/ "ace/pre.h"
+
+#include "tao/AnyTypeCode/TAO_AnyTypeCode_Export.h"
+
+#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
+# pragma once
+#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */
+
+#include "tao/Versioned_Namespace.h"
+
+TAO_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+namespace TAO
+{
+
+  /**
+   * @class Null_RefCount_Policy
+   *
+   * @brief No-op reference counting policy.
+   *
+   * This class is intended to be used as a "policy" argument to a
+   * host class template that implements no-op reference counting.
+   * That class would then inherit privately from it like so:
+   *
+   * @code
+   *   template <class RefCountPolicy>
+   *   class MyHostClass : private RefCountPolicy
+   *   {
+   *   public:
+   *     void my_add_ref (void)    { this->RefCountPolicy::add_ref (); }
+   *     void my_remove_ref (void) { this->RefCountPolicy::remove_ref (); }
+   *   };
+   * @endcode
+   *
+   * and use it like so:
+   *
+   * @code
+   *   typedef MyHostClass<TAO::Null_RefCount_Policy> MyNonRefCountedClass;
+   *   MyNonRefCountedClass m;
+   *   ...
+   * @endcode
+   *
+   * @note In order to incur no size overhead on the host class due to
+   *       virtual tables, no base class defining an interface is
+   *       defined.  This allows C++ compilers to apply the Empty Base
+   *       Class Optimization.
+   */
+  class TAO_AnyTypeCode_Export Null_RefCount_Policy
+  {
+  public:
+
+    /// No-op reference increment.
+    void add_ref (void)  { }
+
+    /// No-op reference decrement.
+    void remove_ref (void) { }
+
+  };
+
+}  // End namespace TAO
+
+TAO_END_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+#include /**/ "ace/post.h"
+
+#endif /* TAO_NULL_REFCOUNT_POLICY_H */