Re: [boost] Interest in a binary_int template for binary literals?

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-13 09:45:56

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Why is that better than 
> 
>   unsigned x = strtoul("1010010001000010000001", 0, 2);
> 
> ? I believe that 'strtoul' is part of C99.
> 

When I've done something similar to the binary template, it was for 
compile-time calculations, whereas strtoul I assume is a runtime call.

Cheers

Russell