Re: [boost] [HEAD] lexical_cast<int8_t>("127") bug?

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-09 13:58:49

Paul A Bristow wrote:
> Documenting the 'pit' is the absolute minimum, but I think other suggestions are MUCH better.

Felipe Magno de Almeida just posted this

"unsigned char are very used for type punning. IIRC, the only standard
way to do that. So, unsigned char is used at least to hold "bytes",
not only numbers."

So, someone can assume that lexical_cast<int8_t>("1") would read one
byte.

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