Re: [Boost-users] detect if a type has a size_t member

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] detect if a type has a size_t member
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-29 15:39:24

AMDG

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Because static const <integral type> = <some value> members are quite 
> special beasts.
> Indeed, unlike other static members, you can't take their address, 
> since they don't exist in memory but only as compile-time constants.

Yes you can take the address of a static const integral type.
If you do, you are required to have a namespace scope
definition, just like an ordinary member, but failure to
do so, can only cause a linker error.  It won't affect the
compiler.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe