Re: [boost] Re: container design (Was: std::complex design (Was: N-Dimensional array))

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-10 16:48:05

On Friday 08 March 2002 15:06, David Abrahams wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]>
>
> > But once layout and initialisation is covered, what about copying for
> > intstance. If I std::copy( complex1_begin, complex1_end,
> > complex2_begin),
> > is the compiler able to use memcpy (AFAIK it will call the assignment
> > op for every one of them)
>
> That part could be handled with compiler-supported type_traits, using
> has_trivial_copy_constructor. Much less of a challenge.

In that case, would'nt it be much simpler to have traits support for 'is_pod'