On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:05:39 -0300, "Agustín K-ballo Bergé"
Andy Tompkins escribió:
It could easily be made static. It will _always_ return 16.
Even for architectures with chars bigger than 8 bits long? From a quick read of the library source code, and boost::integer documentation, it seems that the library would not compile there.
Hmm, can anyone verify this? I will address this if it is a problem. What are the guarantees of the size of a byte? Is a byte always 8 bits?
Would it make any sense in defining data_type as array< unsigned char, 128 / CHAR_BIT >? I'm interested in portability issues, but I have no access to platforms other than intel-x86, so I would like to hear some advice on the subject.
I also have no access to platforms other than x86. Would this work? Would there be performance penalities on some platforms?
Thank you.
Agustín K-ballo Bergé.-
Regards, Andy Tompkins