Re: [Boost-users] Is there a something in boost to facilitate binary buffer transformations into typed data structures/classes?

This is very nice. Thanks Beman, Scott, and other contributors to this! I am coding it up right now. This will really, really help. Do you mean std::copy in <algorithm>? graham On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Scott McMurray wrote:

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Graham Reitz wrote:

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...would like to convert to this in a C++'ish style using a boost facility if it exists: (or consider directing me somewhere else if it doesn't)

There isn't at the moment.

However, Beman Dawes has recently updated his proposed Boost.Endian library (http://tinyurl.com/4bswsh), and there is a discussion about it over on the dev list (http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/05/137820.php and followups).

It would allow you to say (something like)

struct // or class { boost::endian::uint_t<16, boost::endian::big_endian> first; boost::endian::uint_t<32, boost::endian::big_endian> second; } data;

Which you could then std::copy your data into (through char*s), and use the implicit conversions to get native integral types out.

HTH, ~ Scott _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users