Dear All, Back in April 2007 I posted a patch to add 64-bit ints to Boost.Integer: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2007/04/119895.php Scott McMurray replied to say that a patch for this was already waiting and hopefully "will get applied once 1.34 is dealt with". As far as I can see, the Boost.Integer in the release branch still doesn't have this: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/release/boost/integer.hpp What needs to be done so that this functionality is included in 1.36? Phil.
On 17/01/2008, Phil Endecott <spam_from_boost_dev@chezphil.org> wrote:
Scott McMurray replied to say that a patch for this was already waiting and hopefully "will get applied once 1.34 is dealt with".
Unfortunately, it was only a hope, not knowledge of a commitment.
What needs to be done so that this functionality is included in 1.36?
Maybe it needs a new maintainer? It seems pretty unchanged since 2001. ~ Scott -- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Scott McMurray wrote:
On 17/01/2008, Phil Endecott <spam_from_boost_dev@chezphil.org> wrote:
Scott McMurray replied to say that a patch for this was already waiting and hopefully "will get applied once 1.34 is dealt with".
Unfortunately, it was only a hope, not knowledge of a commitment.
What needs to be done so that this functionality is included in 1.36?
Maybe it needs a new maintainer? It seems pretty unchanged since 2001.
Agreed. Phil, would you like to take this on? Apply the patch, update docs and test coverage, and follow it through regression tests on various platforms. If you are interested, let me know and I'll set you up with SVN write permission. --Beman
Phil Endecott wrote:
Back in April 2007 I posted a patch to add 64-bit ints to Boost.Integer: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2007/04/119895.php
Scott McMurray replied to say that a patch for this was already waiting [...] What needs to be done so that this functionality is included in 1.36?
Beman Dawes wrote:
Phil, would you like to take this on?
Please do! :-) I look forward to the long awaited "long long update" of Boost.Integer. So I guess the ticket originally submitted by Scott McMurray (me22) will be reassigned as well: [integer] add support for integers longer than long http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/653 Kind regards, -- Niels Dekker http://www.xs4all.nl/~nd/dekkerware Scientific programmer at LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center
Beman Dawes wrote:
Scott McMurray wrote:
Maybe it needs a new maintainer? It seems pretty unchanged since 2001.
Phil, would you like to take this on? Apply the patch, update docs and test coverage, and follow it through regression tests on various platforms.
Not especially; I've never used Boost.Test or the doc system and learning how that all works would presumably be the bulk of the work. I'll put it on my to-do list, but I encourage someone else to beat me to it. Phil.
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Scott McMurray