Re: [boost] [Endian] Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Endian] Review
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-09-09 09:05:35

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Vicente Botet <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have separated the endian class into a endian_pack that is integer
> agnostic and an endian class that behaves as an integer (You could see the
> details in the Sandbox under endian_ext).
>
> Reference docs:
>
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/endian_ext/libs/integer/endian/doc/html/toward_boost_integer_endian/reference.html#toward_boost_integer_endian.reference.integer_endian_pack_hpp
>
>
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/endian_ext/libs/integer/endian/doc/html
>
> (Sorry but there is a bad link to the reference)
>
> This is not complex

Complexity is in the eye of the beholder. To me, that approach was markedly
more complex and confusing.

> and allows to define physical structures that can be
> used only at the I/O frontier.
>

See my reply to Phil Endecott (this morning, 9/9/11) for an example of doing
this.

--Beman