On 4/3/16 7:21 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
The new plan is to go ahead with an Endian proposal to the C++ committee. They have the expertise to know whether it is even possible to convert between big and little endian floating point in any useful (and non-dangerous) way.
Hmmmm - Then there is the SG-6 committee which has pending a number of proposals dealing with integer arithmetic (fixed binary, arbitrary length integers, safe integers, and some more). Seems related to me. I'm thinking that maybe this should be included.
The committee's March and June meetings are aimed at shipping a C++17 committee draft. The November meeting is Issaquah, WA, US, is likely the first meeting at which an Endian proposal will get any airtime.
I'll update the Boost library docs accordingly.
But I'm not sure that this is a good reason to not maintain a library which has been accepted into Boost. We've created an expectation that everything in boost meets a certain standard and I'm wary of setting that aside for any reason. I'm sure those who recommended the acceptance of the library had every expectation that it would be maintained if accepted. Do you think that the acceptance should be reversed and the library withdrawn? Robert Ramey