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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+namespace cpp thrift5272
+
+// a minimal Thrift struct, to test Trift5272.cpp
+struct Meta
+{
+  1: byte byte_type,  // keep using byte, even it'S just an alias for i8 (THRIFT-5153)
+  2: i8   i8_type,
+  3: i16  i16_type,
+  4: i32  i32_type,
+  5: i64  i64_type,
+}