Hi Robert, "Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> writes:
std::vector<char> data_store_; boost::buffer data_;
Why would you have both?
Because I want the packet to own the data and to be able to access it using a natural interface. With your approach I would have to write gratuitous code like this.
which requires that some other code create a std::vector<char> or other container for the packet to use.
This goes down the slippery slop of someone else owning the memory and making sure it is not gone while other objects still reference it. If that's the functionality you want, then why bother with the buffer class at all? Simply store a pair: const void*, size_t; it will be just as convenient. Boris -- Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog Compiler-based ORM system for C++ http://codesynthesis.com/products/odb Open-source XML data binding for C++ http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd XML data binding for embedded systems http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde