Re: [boost] hton/ntoh template functions

Subject: Re: [boost] hton/ntoh template functions
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-26 09:18:34

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On Thursday 25 September 2008 16:50 pm, vicente.botet wrote:
> vicente.botet a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > currently most of the applications that must take care of endianess use
> > > ntohl/htonl ntohs/htons functions.
> > > When the size of the integer change we need to change between the -s
> > > and -l functions (or maybe remove the call for chars).
> > >
> > > <snip>
> >
> > Why are they template ? Atfer all, the 3 overload is fully sufficent I
> > think
>
> Oups! You are right.

A template would make it harder to accidentally do an implicit conversion of 
an unsupported argument type before it is byte swapped.
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