diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/parser/org/eclipse/cdt/core/parser/util/InstanceOfPredicate.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/parser/org/eclipse/cdt/core/parser/util/InstanceOfPredicate.java
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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Google, Inc and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * 	   Sergey Prigogin (Google) - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.cdt.core.parser.util;
+
+/**
+ * Unary predicate returning {@code true} if the object is an instance of the given class.
+ * @since 5.7
+ */
+public class InstanceOfPredicate<T> implements IUnaryPredicate<T> {
+	private Class<T> type;
+
+	public InstanceOfPredicate(Class<T> type) {
+		this.type = type;
+	}
+	
+	@Override
+	public boolean apply(T obj) {
+		return type.isInstance(obj);
+	}
+}