Hi Tom, how are you.
One of the advantages of the Beman's Endian library is that the endianes of
I am good. I hope you had a good flight back from boostcon. I ended up being stuck in Denver because I missed my last connection. the stored data is on the type. I
think that this is a must, as very often the hidden endian bugs are are due to this fact.
There may be some overlap here with the post I just sent in reply to Terry's questions. Rather than repeating myself, do you mind if I refer you to that post?
I proposed to Beman to split the functionality of endian into two levels. The first level take care just of endian format and how to convert from one endian to the ether. The second defines integer endian types. <snip more...>
Actually, I have toyed with the idea and I am not at all opposed to it. But I thought I'd start small first.
* My experience with swap in place is that it is very dangerous as you can swap in order to send a message and <snip>
At the end of the day, doing endian swapping is inherently a "dangerous" operation, to use your words. I don't think we can always stop the programmer from doing something silly... ;)
Resuming, there will be always people that prefere one or the other design.
I agree. Thank you for the feedback. Tom