Re: operators.hpp and size bloat

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-13 16:08:43

--- In boost_at_[hidden], "Mark Rodgers" <mark.rodgers_at_c...> wrote:
> I was wondering if we are trying to be too clever with 
operators.hpp.

<snip>
 
> Now everything is less complex, and I've got sizeof(myclass) back 
> to 4 without relying on any compiler optimisations.

Yes, I've been considering an approach like that one for some of my 
Python wrapping work. It does simplify things an awful lot, doesn't 
it? It's certainly worth publishing that approach in the 
documentation. I don't think it will work for the dereference 
operators -> and [], which require a this pointer. Also, the iterator 
helpers rely on inheritance from std::iterator.

-Dave