On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:14 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:
Matthias Troyer wrote:
On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
This has been mentioned from time to time and will eventually be changed.
The original rationale was that in some platforms it was 64 bits which seemed wasteful for binary archives - that is 2 G Objects seemed enough.
Now it seems that we'll really need a special type for collection count.
In anycase, it can't be just changed without making obsolete existing archives - so its kind of a slow process.
It can still be changed and be backward-compatible by bumping the version number.
That's what I was refering to. That effectively means that it can only be changed between boost versions - one can't just make the fix on his particular system.
It's still not clear what this should be changed to - if in fact it should be changed at all. std::size_t is a candidate - but I was under the impression that there might be interest in defining a special type for this - like collection_size_t or ?
Indeed that's what's needed, and I have all the patches ready that would need to be applied to do it. Matthias