Re: [boost] [integer] Promotion of endian library code from vault

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-24 07:34:41

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> 
 >...
> The bottom line: For the endian lib to go into boost I really would
> want to require it being able to produce platform independent
> binary data.

Yes, of course. That's the most important requirement.

While the interface in endian.hpp is modern C++, the C implementation of 
underlying struct has been in use since about 1984 on a very wide 
variety of platforms. Data files have been exchanged without problems 
between those platforms since then. Others have reported successful use 
of the same technique. The standards committees understand the 
importance of preserving layout compatibility for such structs.

--Beman