Re: [boost] License of endian and limits in Boost detail

Subject: Re: [boost] License of endian and limits in Boost detail
From: Marc Glisse (marc.glisse_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-19 04:59:05

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Rene Rivera wrote:

> First pass at the Predef header for this at <
> https://raw.github.com/grafikrobot/boost-predef/master/include/boost/predef/endian.h>.
> Currently only tested on my OSX laptop. Would appreciate others trying it
> out. The info is a combination of the indispensable description from
> predef.sf.net (Bjorn Reese et al), known endian specifications I could find
> on the architectures I currently detect, and a small amount of general web
> searching.

If this is supposed to replace detail/endian.hpp, couldn't you define the 
same macros?

BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN or BOOST_LITTLE_ENDIAN, BOOST_BYTE_ORDER which can be 
4321 or 1234, etc.

Boost refused to document those because they aren't reliable enough, but 
that doesn't mean users didn't come to rely on them.

-- 
Marc Glisse