----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Green" <cliffg@codewrangler.net> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 8:43 PM Subject: Re: [boost] [boost::endian] Request for comments/interest (floatingpoint endian handling)
For generic endian conversions, keep in mind the restrictions for floating point types (and other types with similar properties). It might be worthwhile putting in an "is_integral" check in the generic function implementations.
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I can't remember if Beman's endian facilities addressed floating point swapping, but any accepted Boost endian facility needs to address non-integral types in some form or fashion (either by restricting, or properly implementing).
I faintly remember some discussions on this subject in the Serialization portable binary archive, or maybe in the Math floating point utilities, but a quick glance at 1.43 documentation doesn't provide specific code for endianness handling in either library (I may have missed it).
Beman's endian library restricts to interger types. Vicente