Re: [Boost-users] lexical_cast question

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-27 08:49:53

Hansi <hansipet <at> web.de> writes:

> It works now for pointers too, but now I have the problem with the char 
> type. First I have made a specialization for this type. Is it here also 
> possible to make only one specialization or have I to provide both for 
> pointer and value?

I wonder what your Validator validates? You seem to be mixing values and 
pointers which is not a good idea.

BTW,

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/libs/conversion/lexical_cast.htm#changes

"The previous version of lexical_cast allowed unsafe and meaningless 
conversions to pointers. The current version now throws a bad_lexical_cast for 
conversions to pointers: lexical_cast<char *>("Goodbye, World") now throws an 
exception instead of causing undefined behavior."

--
Alexander