Re: [boost] [gsoc][RFC] Pointer Plus Bits

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc][RFC] Pointer Plus Bits
From: Brian Bartman (bbartmanboost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-26 11:55:46

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Stefan Strasser <strasser_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> it seems to me that this is beyond the scope of a "bitfield tuple".
>

You may be right. I'll bright this up with my mentor and see what he thinks
about it. Thanks for the feedback.

> if I'd have to generate network packet headers I'd probably want a
> stream/output iterator that I can use to output data which guarantees
> endianness and alignment, not a data type that allows random access.
>
none of the other (aggregated) types of C++ give any guarantees about the
> storage layout, not even PODs.
>
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thanks,
Brian Bartman