Re: [boost] [Review] of binary_int utility starts

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-19 04:41:48

> template< int b1, int b2 >
> struct binary_int
> {
>    typedef unsigned short type;
>    static const type value = ...;
> };

Guys, please, we have BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT for this:

BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(type, value = x);

We also have config-macros to detect the presence of long long and whether 
64-bit integers can be used in integral-constant-expressions.

For portablity you should use long long and the uLL suffix, and not the 
Microsoft-specific ui64 suffix (versions of VC++ that don't support long 
long, don't support 64-bit constant expressions anyway so you don't loose 
anything by going down this route).

John.