Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Summary of discussion #1

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Summary of discussion #1

Of course "pack" can be a noun. I didn't say otherwise (presuming that your reference to nouns versus verbs was in reference to one of my posts on that point). However, just as you've used it, a "pack" is a collection or holder of things. Hence, it doesn't work in this context because the type in question holds a single integer type of some number of bits/octets.

The Beman's unaligned version contains a number of octes not an integer. char m_value[n_bits/8]; best, Vicente