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This mechanism provides type specific instance counts.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlm_instancecount.h>`

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struct InstanceCount;
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== Type Aliases

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlm/InstanceCount/Value.adoc[`Value`] 
| This `typedef` is an alias for the storage type for instance counts.
|===


== Static Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlm/InstanceCount/nextInstanceNumber.adoc[`nextInstanceNumber`] 
| Return the next instance number for the specified `OBJECT_TYPE`.
|===



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