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Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in bitstream class?
From: Paul Long (plong_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-29 22:32:37


On 6/29/2013 10:04 AM, Rob Stewart wrote:
> There are plenty of little endian only contexts that would want to
> avoid the host->network->host conversions for all transfers.

..and that's one reason why support for little endian is now planned
(https://github.com/dplong/bstream/wiki/To-do).

I'd like to localize the endianess behavior so that a consumer could
even define an otherwise unsupported endianess via, for example,
overloading a single function.

Paul


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