Iain K. Hanson wrote:
Hi,
I need to use a bitset with contiguous storage so that I can pass it to a system call. Although I can't see it in the documentation, I know from reading the code, that dynamic bitset is implemented in terms of std::vector.
Also, whilst I don't need the run time resizing that dynamic bitset provides, I do need to be able to use up to at least 64K bits,
So, is there any chance of an additional member function+ that returns a pointer to the zero'eth element of the underlying vector?
regards
/ikh
I encountered a similar problem when trying to serialize an object that had a dynamic_bitset as a member. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/198466 Taking a lead from how std::bitset is serialized, I limited myself to the existing API. However that's only a limitation with std objects where the API is frozen. With boost::dynamic_bitset I should have taken advantage of the ability to change the source and made the serialization functions friends. Instead I made use of boost::dynamic_bitset::to_block_range(). If that meets your needs, you can avoid an API change. See dynamic_bitset.hpp within my ZIP file for an example. http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?directory=serialization Thanks, Paul