Re: [Boost-users] Building and testing smart pointersusing HP-UX/G++

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-12 15:20:19

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> Another option is to just switch to 'int' and 32-bit accesses (as
>> we did for PPC64 IIRC.)
>
> Yes, that's another possibility, but it breaks binary compatibility -
> surely a black mark against a bug fix?

Breaking binary compatibility is routine for Boost, even in minor releases.

> - and I would expect 32-bit accesses to be a little less efficient.

I doubt that it'd make a difference, except in sizeof(the control block). I 
think that 32 bits are fine for a reference count, even on a 64 bit 
platform. :-)