Re: [boost] Re: About dlw_util.zip

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-25 13:45:55

At 02:00 PM 4/25/2001, Jens Maurer wrote:

 >I think you can read uninitialized values of "unsigned char"
 >type, because they're required to have a (legal) value for every
 >bit pattern of their representation.

Yes, 3.9.1 says:

"For character types, all bits of the object representation participate in 
the value representation. For unsigned character types, all possible bit 
patterns of the value representation represent numbers. These requirements 
do not hold for other types."

Run tests, as opposed to just compile tests, really are much better.  The 
main usefulness of the compile test is the compile-fail flavor.

--Beman