Re: [boost] Dynamic Bitset - Upcoming Formal Review

From: Giovanni Bajo (giovannibajo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-03 16:42:58

Attached there is a patch to fix some standard compliance issues (mainly,
two missing 'typename' keywords, and a lot of lookup errors due to a base
class being a template). All the tests/examples work fine on Comeau 4.3 with
this patch. As for VC7, the main problem appears to be out-of-class
definitions of member templates, which are not supported. Moving the
definitions within the class definition should help a lot. Let me know if
you want me to do that, I'm quite interested in this library.

Giovanni Bajo

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From: "Mat Marcus" <mmarcus_at_[hidden]>
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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: [boost] Dynamic Bitset - Upcoming Formal Review

> The formal review of Dynamic Bitset by Chuck Alison and Jeremy
> Siek
> will commence on Saturday June 8th and run through Monday, June
> 17th.
>
> The library is currently available at
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/dyn_bitset.tar.gz>
>
>
> Below is an excerpt from the library's documentation:
>
>     The dyn_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides
>     accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[]
>     and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can
>     apply to builtin integers, such as operator&& and
>     operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at
>     runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the
>     dyn_bitset.
>
>     Each bit represents either the Boolean value true (set) or
>     false (reset). To toggle a bit is to change the value to
>     true if it is false and to false if it is true. Each bit
>     has a non-negative position pos. The position pos == 0
>     corresponds to the least significant bit and pos == size()
>     - 1 is the most significant bit. When converting an
>     instance of dyn_bitset to or from an unsigned long, the bit
>     position pos corresponds to the bit value 1 << pos.
>
>     The dyn_bitset class is nearly identical to the std::bitset
>     class. The difference is that the size of the dyn_bitset
>     (the number of bits) is specified at run-time during the
>     construction of a dyn_bitset object, whereas the size of a
>     std::bitset is specified at compile-time through an integer
>     template parameter.
>
>
> For information about submitting a Formal Review, see
> http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm
>
> Please try out the library so that you will be prepared to to
> say whether or not you think the library should be accepted by
> Boost during the upcoming review period next week
>
> Compiler notes: This library has been tested using the
> following compiler platforms:
>
> Gcc 2.95 and 3.01
> Kai C++
> Metrowerks Codewarrior 8 (beta, Mac)
>
> The library presently requires template friend support and
> therfore is known not to compile with CodeWarrior 7.2.
>
> The library has not been tested with VC++ or Borland.
>
>
> The Formal Review manager will be Mat Marcus.
>
>
>
>
>
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