Re: [boost] [endian] Request formal review

On 2006-06-22 at 13:35:36, Beman Dawes wrote:
There is an update to my endian proposal available at ...
The docs can be read online at ...
This update:
* Reflects all comments received to date. * Makes the proposal part of the Boost integer library. * Docs have been updated and expanded. * Native endianness has be implemented.
The proposal is mostly done at this point and is essentially ready for a formal review.
Did anything ever come of this? I've been searching through all the list postings on this, dating back to 2000, and it doesn't look like this library ever made it into boost proper. It's exactly what I've been looking for, and I would really like to use it in my work, but I can't justify that if it's not an official part of boost. I also would hate to reinvent this particular wheel. Please could someone get this moving again? Also, where would I now find the version of this code that was put up for review? The links in the original message are no longer current. --Neil

On 2008-05-13 07:35 Neil Mayhew wrote:
... where would I now find the version of this code that was put up for review?
OK, I found the files in the vault (thanks to Daniel Herring). I guess I should have provided a link to the original thread: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/06/106655.php I can also provide a meaningful use-case for this library: reading TrueType font files from disk and processing the contents. The data format has fixed endianness (big) and has unaligned values in various places. Using Boost.Endian simplifies and cleans the code wonderfully. However, as I said before, my colleagues and managers won't buy the idea if it isn't part of a supported library. --Neil
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