Re: [review][pfr] PFR review

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-10-02 10:55:04

Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:
> > My only complaint is that unsigned char and signed char (and thus 
> > uint8_t and int8_t) are streamed as their char values, and thus as their 
> > unadorned ASCII characters. Since they can be non-printable values, I 
> > consider this behavior undesirable.
>
>
> But should this complaint target PFR or C++ in general?

Iostreams in general. Outputting `unsigned char*` as a null-terminated 
string is especially broken. I'm sure this made sense to someone in 1995.