Re: [Boost-users] size_type doubts / integer library..

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-18 16:53:57

On Aug 18, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Andrea Denzler wrote:

>> You can also write your own template type that takes bitsize (or  
>> value
>> range)
>> and resolves to the smallest native integral able to satisfy the
>> requirement.
>
> Sure, we know all that C/C++ fortunately allows to do that. But if  
> such
> tasks, like cross platform serialization are so common, why not  
> introducing
> them as a standard like with the STL.

Do you guys know that we have class templates with inner typedefs to  
the built-in integer types that do what you want here?  And they're  
based on either bit-length or maximum/minimum value.

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