[endian] Boost.Endian library added for 1.57.0

The library provides integer and floating point types and conversion functions for portable byte ordering regardless of processor endianness. Although the primary uses are for file or network I/O, it is also useful for unaligned integers or floats, or for 3, 5, 6, and 7 byte integers. The library's predecessors have been in use for thirty years and developed independently multiple times. The repository is https://github.com/boostorg/endian The documentation is online at https://boostorg.github.io/endian/ See https://boostorg.github.io/endian/index.html#Release-history for changes since the Formal Review. No need to report "Inspection Report" problems; those will be cleaned up before 1.57.0 ships. Please do report any other problems or concerns, since the time between now and when the 1.57.0 beta ships in effect acts a mini-review period. If anyone has access to a big-endian platform with a modern C++ compiler, please, please run the endian test suite and report the results. All testing and use in recent years has been on little-endian platforms, so big-endian platform testing is a worry. Thanks for you patience, --Beman

On 16/08/2014 03:36, Beman Dawes wrote:
If anyone has access to a big-endian platform with a modern C++ compiler, please, please run the endian test suite and report the results. All testing and use in recent years has been on little-endian platforms, so big-endian platform testing is a worry.
How modern does the compiler need to be? I have access to a couple of BE platforms but mostly they're using ancient compilers from the dawn of time. (Only one of them uses GCC >= 3.)

On 14-08-15 12:36 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
The library provides integer and floating point types and conversion functions for portable byte ordering regardless of processor endianness. Although the primary uses are for file or network I/O, it is also useful for unaligned integers or floats, or for 3, 5, 6, and 7 byte integers. The library's predecessors have been in use for thirty years and developed independently multiple times.
What's the current status of Boost.Endian? I can't find it in the 1.57 release. Will it be part of the 1.58 release?
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Beman Dawes
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Emile Cormier
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Gavin Lambert