Re: [boost] Portable binary integers [was generic polyvalent I/O]

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-16 16:03:47

At 01:27 PM 11/16/2000 -0700, Greg Colvin wrote:

 >... It seems that if
 >you provide 1,2,4, and 8 byte signed and unsigned integers and 4 and
 >8 byte IEEE floats you have pretty well covered the waterfront.

3 byte signed and unsigned integers are also very useful in practice, I 
know from experience.  My guess is that 5 and 6 byte formats would also be 
really useful for those working with larger data values.

--Beman