Re: [boost] Re: [review] hash functions

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-13 07:03:43

John Maddock wrote:
> There is a forth option: treat the pointer as a "bag of bytes" and hash 
> those bytes, that's completely portable, and no reinterpret_cast is
> required (it's probably overkill as well)

It's portable, but possibly inferior. The implementation may normalize 
pointers on reinterpret_cast so that two equal pointers that do not have the 
same byte representation reinterpret_cast to the same value.