Re: [Boost-users] [serialization]

13 Nov 2005


      Daryle Walker  writes:
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On 11/10/05 11:21 AM, "David Abrahams"  wrote:
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"Robert Ramey"  writes:
[SNIP]
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But a close substiture might be to convert the variable to
an integer, throw an exception if its not equal to 0 or 1
No!!  If you convert a bool to an integer and get something other than
0 or 1 then there's a bug in the program (or in the compiler).  An
assertion is appropriate.
[TRUNCATE]
The bug would be in the compiler since other values are not allowed (see
s4.5p4 and s4.7p4).
No, an bool that was left uninitialized could be converted into a
different int value as one expression of undefined behavior.

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