Boost policy on integer types

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-12 12:11:00

In doing some work on boost/progress.hpp, I noticed that 
boost::progress_display traffics in expected counts, which are currently 
defined as unsigned long.

Now the whole point of progress_display is long running computations, so 
the expected counts may be very large.

Thus it seems to me that boost::uintmax_t (from <boost/cstdint.hpp>) is a 
much better choice for the count type.

Is use of <boost/cstdint.hpp> something we should encourage in our library 
guidelines?  Seems to me we should.

--Beman