Re: [boost] [predef] Status and review results?

Subject: Re: [boost] [predef] Status and review results?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-21 20:16:11

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On Sunday 21 April 2013 16:00:49 Rene Rivera wrote:
> > Just a quick message to mention that I've finished all the review related
> > changes to the Predef library. And done some of the future tasks on the
> > library. In particular the addition of endianness definitions and the
> > moving of MinGW as a platform instead of a compiler (and hence the
> addition
> > of BOOST_PLAT category of macros.
> >
> > And the one question I have is.. When will the review results of the
> > library be decided on? I ask for two reasons. One, the obvious, is just
> to
> > know if it's accepted or not. And to know if it's not accepted and hence
> > that I should spend time to recreate a "boost/detail/endian.hpp" header
> > that implements the Predef logic for endian detection.
> >
> > Note the project move to Github earlier this year (in preparation for the
> > Boost git move). You can find the project at <
> > https://github.com/grafikrobot/boost-predef>, and browse the current
> > documentation at <http://tinyurl.com/cqqhhev>.
>
> I noticed this in the docs:
>
> BOOST_ARCH_X86_64
> Intel IA-64 architecture.
>
> x86_64 (aka amd64 and Intel64), which is a widespread extension to IA32
> (x86),
> is not the same as IA64, which is implemented in Itanium CPUs. Could you,
> please, separate these two architectures?
>

How weird.. They used to be separate. I must have gotten myself confused in
doing the X86_32/64 variants. I'll separate IA64 (as it was before).

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