[Boost-users] Dynamic Bitset formal review - half way point

From: Mat Marcus (mmarcus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-14 13:22:20

Reminder - We have just past the half way point for the formal 
review of dynamic bitset. So far we have:

1 formal yes vote
1 formal no vote

Discussion regarding iterators for dynamic bitset and 
comparison to vector<bool>.
Some minor corrections and updates.

I would like to see more formal reviews (including a yes or no 
vote) before the review period ends on the 17th.

Thanks,
Mat

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> 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.
>
>
>
>
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