Re: [boost] Any interest in bitstream class?

Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in bitstream class?
From: Paul Long (plong_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-29 23:17:05

On 6/29/2013 3:54 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> The C++ Middleware Writer uses a "receiver makes right" approach to 
> support that. There's a SameFormat class here: 
> http://webEbenezer.net/misc/Formatting.hh that's used when both sides 
> have the same endian-ness.

An "anti-goal" of the proposed bitstream library is that it is _not_ a 
serialization tool, such as CMW: 
https://github.com/dplong/bstream/wiki/Goals I'm not saying that the 
technique you mention does not apply to bitstream--I haven't looked into 
it--but I did want to put this out there.

Paul