On Jul 20, 2006, at 10:34 AM, me22 wrote:
The problem is that the classes can't properly act "like ints". The way they are now they can't be used in a union, as you've mentions.
One more area where they can't act like int's is in variable length arguments. Even using my init() method, the following code won't compile on the printf: big4_t x = big4_t::init(42); std::cout << x << "\n"; printf("%d\n", x); warning: cannot pass objects of non-POD type 'struct boost::integer::big4_t' through '...'; call will abort at runtime One way around this is to add a get() method, so you can use: printf("%d\n", x.get()); Or, as I prefer, use operator(): printf("%d\n", x()); Implemented as follows: T operator()() const { return detail::load_big_endian<T, n_bytes>(bytes); } -Dave