On 7/11/2011 12:25 PM, Antony Polukhin wrote:
2011/7/11 Paul A. Bristow<pbristow@hetp.u-net.com>:
If so should it go into our Boost style 'recommendations' docs somewhere?
If you keep the behaviour stable for the fundamental types, then I have no objections. It will be a good feature! But the final decision must take the maintainer.
Best regards, Antony Polukhin
That's great. :) I've put together a more streamlined patch that includes a preprocessed set of traits for the fundamental types. I chose to explicitly generate them from macros rather than use enable_if tricks to avoid compile time costs. One problem I foresee is how to arrive at a unique set of fundamental types for each compiler. I used boost/cstdint.hpp and the definitions there for the integral type (u/int8_t etc.) I found something that was a bit of a surprise though on msvc10. The 'char' type is not the same as int8_t (signed char) or uint8_t(unsigned char). I would have expected the former. I explicitly added char specialization to the args sent to the code generation macros, but I expect this won't be correct for all compilers. Cheers, Brandon