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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 18:09:21

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> Just checked:
> iostream::write
> can't write to a void*

Actually, its expecting a const char*.

> 
> This means:
> 
> struct A_t {
>   ulittle32_t a;
>   ulittle32_t b;
> } A;
> 
> std::fstream f("test.bin", ios::out|ios::binary);
> 
> f.write(&A, sizeof(A_t);
> 
> won't compile. And I think one should be able to expect this
> to work for an endian lib.
> 
> Or am am I missing something here?

A reinterpret_cast is needed for a struct. It doesn't matter what is 
inside the struct.

--beman