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Subject: Re: [boost] Candidate for 1.66.1, if there is one
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-12-24 22:28:12
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> It should be possible to create portable ones based on Endian's buffer
> types, one just needs to choose an appropriate size for 'int' (32 bits would
> probably be fine here) and 'long' (32, 48, or 64? hard to say.)
48?? ;)
How about variable-width encoding? Hard-coding the size of int might
be problematic.
-- Olaf
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