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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">&gt;</span>
<span class="keyword">struct</span> <span class="identifier">promote</span>
<span class="special">{</span>
<span class="keyword">typedef</span> <em class="replaceable"><code>see-below</code></em> <span class="identifier">type</span><span class="special">;</span>
<span class="special">};</span>
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<span class="bold"><strong>type:</strong></span> If integral or floating point promotion
can be applied to an rvalue of type <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code>,
then applies integral and floating point promotions to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code>
and keeps cv-qualifiers of <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code>,
otherwise leaves <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">T</span></code> unchanged.
See also <a class="link" href="integral_promotion.html" title="integral_promotion">integral_promotion</a>
and <a class="link" href="floating_point_promotion.html" title="floating_point_promotion">floating_point_promotion</a>.
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<span class="bold"><strong>C++ Standard Reference:</strong></span> 4.5 except 4.5/3
(integral bit-field) and 4.6.
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<span class="bold"><strong>Header:</strong></span> <code class="computeroutput"> <span class="preprocessor">#include</span>
<span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">type_traits</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">promote</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">&gt;</span></code>
or <code class="computeroutput"> <span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special">&lt;</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">&gt;</span></code>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">promote</span><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">short</span> <span class="keyword">volatile</span><span class="special">&gt;::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></code>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">int</span> <span class="keyword">volatile</span></code>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">promote</span><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">float</span> <span class="keyword">const</span><span class="special">&gt;::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></code>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span> <span class="keyword">const</span></code>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">promote</span><span class="special">&lt;</span><span class="keyword">short</span><span class="special">&amp;&gt;::</span><span class="identifier">type</span></code>
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">short</span><span class="special">&amp;</span></code>
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