David Abrahams wrote:
"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> writes:
I was expecting to see your enhancements for arrays to get included and for collection_size (or whatever) to be part of this. I'm not sure what status of this is and/or if it conflicts with the recent feature freeze.
IMO the size_type change should be considered a bugfix, as it was not possible to portably serialize collections
of over 4 G objects
without it.
We could change it to std::size_t, but I'm not sure that is what we really want for this. the number of items in a collection is sort a different thing than the size that something comsumes in memory which is what I interprete std::size_t to be. So a special collection_count_type or something like that has been considered but I haven't investigated the implications of this. Such a change affects archives forever in the future. For these reasons, I have been reluctant to "just do it" Robert Ramey