[Boost-announce] Dynamic Bitset Formal Review June 8-17

From: Mat Marcus (mmarcus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-08 12:45:39

The formal review of Dynamic Bitset by Chuck Alison and Jeremy 
Siek
will commence today Saturday June 8th and run through Monday, 
June 17th.

The library is currently available at
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/dyn_bitset.tar.gz>

Below is an excerpt from the library's documentation:

    The dyn_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides
    accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[]
    and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can
    apply to builtin integers, such as operator&& and
    operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at
    runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the
    dyn_bitset.

    Each bit represents either the Boolean value true (set) or
    false (reset). To toggle a bit is to change the value to
    true if it is false and to false if it is true. Each bit
    has a non-negative position pos. The position pos == 0
    corresponds to the least significant bit and pos == size()
    - 1 is the most significant bit. When converting an
    instance of dyn_bitset to or from an unsigned long, the bit
    position pos corresponds to the bit value 1 << pos.

    The dyn_bitset class is nearly identical to the std::bitset
    class. The difference is that the size of the dyn_bitset
    (the number of bits) is specified at run-time during the
    construction of a dyn_bitset object, whereas the size of a
    std::bitset is specified at compile-time through an integer
    template parameter.

For information about submitting a Formal Review, see
http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm

Please try out the library and comment during the review 
period. Be sure to say whether or not you think the library 
should be accepted by Boost.

Compiler notes: This library has been tested using the 
following compiler platforms:

Gcc 2.95 and 3.01
Kai C++
Metrowerks Codewarrior 8 (beta, Mac)
Visual C++ 7.0
Comeau

The library presently requires template friend support and is 
known not to compile with CodeWarrior 7.2 or Visual C++ 6.0.

The library has not been tested with Borland.

The Formal Review manager is Mat Marcus.