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Subject: Re: [boost] [endain_ext] Beman's Integer.Endian extensions to work with endian unaware data
From: Dave Handley (Dave.Handley_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-14 13:38:58


Vicente Botet wrote:
> Tom's swap_in_place force to interpret all the fields of the structure with the same endianness.

Do you have a use case for the situation where fields of a structure have different endianness? It seems a lot of complexity to add if there isn't a strong use case.

Dave


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