On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:07, Andy Tompkins
I understand your desire. I would like to put in mutating iterators. I wrote in my last post, should the uuid library require CHAR_BITS == 8, or can it relax and only require that CHAR_BITS % 8 == 0. That is the uuid library only needs 8 bit bytes. I guess the difference will be in implementating the iterators.
I think it's reasonable for the uuid class itself to work iff boost/cstdint.hpp provides a uint8_t, and for the generators to work if boost/cstdint.hpp provides a uint32_t. (The latter is mostly for the hash, but requiring it for the random too is convenient). I don't see the added implementation complexity to support unusual architectures as being worth it. For example, even the C compiler for the last mcu I used (one of the weaker MSP430s) provided both, despite it being about 500 (or 65000, depending) times slower than and having one millionth the ram of my laptop. That said, I recall a discussion on the LLVM list a bit back about an architecture with 96-bit registers separated into four 24-bit channels. Is anyone running Boost on such things?