[boost] Re: variant questions

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-30 08:54:05

"Eric Friedman" <ebf_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Eric Friedman" <ebf_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > Dave,
>> >
>> > Please see the BoostBook reference documentation for variant. The HTML
> is
>> > quite out of sync with the current implementation. I haven't removed it
> from
>> > CVS yet though because I am still in the process of porting the
> examples,
>> > etc. to BoostBook.
>>
>> which is... where?
>
> The sources are all the *.xml files in the libs/variant/doc tree. If you'd
> like to see relatively recently-generated HTML, check out
> http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/doc/html/variant.html.

What does

   Minimum strong exception-safety guarantee with respect to container
   state for all operations.

"with respect to container state" mean?

What does

   Efficient, stack-based implementation.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^

This mean?
I can guess that it means variant doesn't use dynamic allocation, but
that's not always true is it?

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Dave Abrahams
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