On 04/24/2011 07:12 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
int32_t x = 0x01020304; int32_t y = 0;
f<< bin(x); // write 4 bytes f.seekg(0); f>> bin(y); // read 4 bytes
What about integral promotion? I.e. what if the platform int isn't 4 bytes? What if you need to output 1 or 2 bytes?
Is there interest in this for Boost?
Rather than a machine and compiler-dependent binary IO facility based on iostreams, I'd rather have a simple, minimal, portable binary streaming interface that handled endianness and alignment well for wire-representation defined structures. <iostream> brings in a huge header tree with 99% unnecessary functionality for binary protocols. The more efficient the headers, the better. Functions that didn't need to read could just include the header for writing, and vice-versa. - Marsh