Re: [boost] compressed_pair and g++

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-06-30 17:10:43

Howard Hinnant writes:
 > 
 > I didn't know this about g++ (I don't have it installed).

That's one good thing about SourceForge... they have a compile farm
running linux (with g++ of course).

 > This may give a false positive for:  struct foo {char c;};

Ouch, that could be a killer...

 > Sorry, compressed_pair was never intended to compress on those platforms 
 > where the compiler optimization was not performed.  However 
 > compressed_pair _is_ designed to otherwise be functionally equivalent on 
 > those platforms.  So you just write your code once, and if the compiler 
 > optimizes, then your code takes advantage of that.  If not, then not. 
 > <shrug>

Nod.

-Jeremy