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+//          Copyright Alain Miniussi 2014.
+// 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)
+
+// Authors: Alain Miniussi
+
+#ifndef BOOST_MPI_ANTIQUES_HPP
+#define BOOST_MPI_ANTIQUES_HPP
+
+#include <vector>
+
+// Support for some obsolette compilers
+
+namespace boost { namespace mpi {
+    namespace detail {
+      // Some old gnu compiler have no support for vector<>::data
+      // Use this in the mean time, the cumbersome syntax should 
+      // serve as an incentive to get rid of this when those compilers 
+      // are dropped.
+      template <typename T, typename A>
+      T* c_data(std::vector<T,A>& v) { return &(v[0]); }
+
+      template <typename T, typename A>
+      T const* c_data(std::vector<T,A> const& v) { return &(v[0]); }
+  
+} } }
+
+#endif