Re: [boost] [shifted_ptr] "new shifted<T>"

From: Phil Bouchard (philippe_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-06 04:14:23

"Simonson, Lucanus J" <lucanus.j.simonson_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:33E1C72C74DBE747B7B59C1740F7443703593075_at_orsmsx417.amr.corp.intel.com...

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> I forgot to mention that casting the pointer to signed integer will
> cause problems even if they happen to be the same bit width.  This is
> because pointer values with a 1 in the msb will cast to negative integer
> values, which will cause the order of p and p+s to become inverted,
> leading to an error condition in numeric::interval, which will result in
> a null interval, according to interval's documentation.  That would be
> difficult to debug.

Like previously mentionned that cast is simply a temporary solution but 
hopefully void * types will be easy to integrate into interval<>.  I will 
also change int for unsigned until void * works.

-Phil