Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Summary of discussion #1

Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Summary of discussion #1
From: Terry Golubiewski (tjgolubi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-03 12:17:00

Vicente wrote:
> The typed interface exists already on the Beman's library. Thus I don't 
> see any need to reimplement it. Do you?

Beman's approach is integer centric and combines the use of 
non-natively-sized integers and endianness.
I would like to see Beman's library split into two parts: the integer part 
and the endian-part.
I have shown that implementing the object-based approach that Beman's uses 
does not benefit from a swap-based implemention (at least on my machine).

> I work for a telecomunication company, and I have used a lot of standard 
> protocols that reserved 3 bytes for an int. Theese protocols were defined 
> a long time ago, but we need to work yet with them. I have not an example 
> at hands, but you can belive me that these cases exists. Of course for 
> propietaty protocols this could be avoided, and now we have less problem 
> with the size of the messages.

Absolutely!  For over-the-air (wireless) protocols, conservation of bits in 
messages is extremely important due to limited bandwidth.

terry