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From: Michael Marcin (mike.marcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-31 15:20:59


Daniel Frey wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:16 -0500, Michael Marcin wrote:
>>
>> Be sure to check the size of your type with your compiler. Some embedded
>> and DSP compilers in the past made types that derive from operators
>> larger. Although I think that was partially due to a operators bug that
>> was fixed a long time ago.
>
> AFAIK that's not a bug in the operators library, but an inefficiency in
> the compiler's ABI (the EBO actually, which misses some optimization
> opportunities for multiply inheritance from empty base classes).

I was referring to http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/979 which bit
me on a project where we had a fixed-point 3 coordinate vector which had
operators which contained a fixed-point types which had operators.

Thanks,

Michael Marcin


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