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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Compare boost::system::error_category
From: Bjorn Reese (breese_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-26 11:56:13


On 03/26/2017 12:05 AM, Christopher Pisz via Boost-users wrote:
> What would be so wrong with category being an actual number to compare
> against?

The challenge is to select a number for a category that is globally
unique across translation units.

The error equality operators use the address of a singleton as this
unique number.


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