Re: [boost] [endian] Empty Base Class trouble implementing endian wrappers.

From: Yuval Ronen (ronen_yuval_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-10 11:16:10

me22 wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Yuval Ronen <ronen_yuval_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Are you implementing the big_endian<T> class as holding a member of type
>> T? If you do (that's the most logical way, I think), then it sounds most
>> strange to me. Is it just one compiler that's causing problems? Have you
>> tried on more than one compiler?
>>
> Yes, it's holding it as a member.
> 
> I've tried it (with the same results) in g++ 3.3.6, 3.4.6, and 4.1.1.
> I just installed icc to try it with that, but I think there's a
> library mismatch or something with the rest of my system as I can't
> even get hello world to compile with it.

VC8 gives me

sizeof( boost::exact<24> ) =    0x3
sizeof( boost::big_endian< boost::exact<24> > ) =       0x3

so maybe it's a gcc bug...