Re: [boost] move_ptr

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-24 19:20:19

On 1/21/04 5:06 PM, "Howard Hinnant" <hinnant_at_[hidden]> wrote:

[SNIP]
> So if I want to support large arrays (and I really, really should), my
> choices are:
> 
> move_ptr[](ptrdiff_t) : Requires clients to use a cast to silence
> conversion warnings, or risk incorrect indexing logic when buffer size
> grows beyond INT_MAX.
> 
> move_ptr[](size_t) :  Works for large arrays with no warnings.
> 
> Guess which one I favor. ;-)

Can you have both?  The built-in signed integral types would go to the
"ptrdiff_t" version and the built-in unsigned integral types would go to the
"size_t" version.  Or do the conversion rules produce an ambiguity error
instead?

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