Re: [boost] Re: port of test library to vacpp

From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-27 09:38:15

From: Toon Knapen <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]>
> Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> 
> > Can it be persuaded to do so? Maybe it ignores the cast to size_type
> > and uses an int because -1 will fit in an int, in which case maybe
> > this would make it use a bigger type:
> > 
> >     enum npos_type { npos = -1UL }
> 
> nope, does not work.

I'm not surprised.  The original code cast -1 to size_type, an
unsigned type.  The above makes npos a negative integral value
which probably doesn't always interact correctly elsewhere.

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