On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Eric Niebler <eric@boostpro.com> wrote:
You mean, how did I discover the nature of the implementation-defined behavior for each compiler? It wasn't by reading any docs. I just played around with various compilers until I found what worked. I found some compiler bugs in the process, too. See:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?Feedba...
Interesting. Ok, but if a string maps to an integer it means that I can only pass 4 characters at once on a 32bit platform??? I just looked over your tests and did not get immediately that these all use char test sequences. I used a slightly different approach in my previous use case. template<char const* Str> string {...}; extern const char some_string[] ={"abcd efg..."}; typedef string<some_string> my_string_type; Would be cool to find a solution of really passing strings like: typedef string<"abcd efg.."> some_other_type; Regards, Ovanes