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+// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+// This test illustrates use of `box (<place>) <value>` syntax to
+// initialize into the end of a Vec<T>.
+
+#![feature(unsafe_destructor)]
+
+use std::cell::{UnsafeCell};
+use std::ops::{Placer,PlacementAgent};
+
+struct EmplaceBack<'a, T:'a> {
+    vec: &'a mut Vec<T>,
+}
+
+pub fn main() {
+    let mut v : Vec<[f32, ..4]> = vec![];
+    v.push([10., 20., 30., 40.]);
+    v.push([11., 21., 31., 41.]);
+    let mut pv = EmplaceBack { vec: &mut v };
+    let () = box (pv) [12., 22., 32., 42.];
+    let v = pv.vec;
+    assert!(same_contents(
+        v.as_slice(),
+        [[10., 20., 30., 40.],
+         [11., 21., 31., 41.],
+         [12., 22., 32., 42.],
+         ]));
+}
+
+fn same_contents<T:PartialEq>(a: &[[T, ..4]], b: &[[T, ..4]]) -> bool {
+    assert_eq!(a.len(), b.len());
+    let len = a.len();
+    for i in range(0, len) {
+        if a[i].as_slice() != b[i].as_slice() {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    return true;
+}
+
+struct EmplaceBackAgent<T> {
+    vec_ptr: *mut Vec<T>,
+    offset: uint,
+}
+
+impl<'a, T> Placer<T, (), EmplaceBackAgent<T>> for EmplaceBack<'a, T> {
+    fn make_place(&self) -> EmplaceBackAgent<T> {
+        let len = self.vec.len();
+        let v = self.vec as *mut Vec<T>;
+        unsafe {
+            (*v).reserve_additional(1);
+        }
+        EmplaceBackAgent { vec_ptr: v, offset: len }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T> PlacementAgent<T, ()> for EmplaceBackAgent<T> {
+    unsafe fn pointer(&self) -> *mut T {
+        assert_eq!((*self.vec_ptr).len(), self.offset);
+        assert!(self.offset < (*self.vec_ptr).capacity());
+        (*self.vec_ptr).as_mut_ptr().offset(self.offset.to_int().unwrap())
+    }
+
+    unsafe fn finalize(self) -> () {
+        assert_eq!((*self.vec_ptr).len(), self.offset);
+        assert!(self.offset < (*self.vec_ptr).capacity());
+        (*self.vec_ptr).set_len(self.offset + 1);
+    }
+}
+
+#[unsafe_destructor]
+impl<T> Drop for EmplaceBackAgent<T> {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        // Do not need to do anything; all `make_place` did was ensure
+        // we had some space reserved, it did not touch the state of
+        // the vector itself.
+    }
+}