Daryle Walker writes (about allowing uint_t<N>::fast to be a nonstandard type such as long long when necessary):
> The reason it hasn't been added is that there is no guarantee > that long long constants can be used at compile-time (since it's not > officially part of C++). 1. Do you know of ANY platform that support long long that doesn't also give you a way to define long long constants? 2. Even if you can't write long long literals, you can still write things like (unsigned long long)(-1) as a compile-time constant for the maximum allowed unsigned long long value. 3. You don't need long long constants to implement <boost/integer.hpp> in a way that takes advantage of long long's if they exist, so why do you care? 4. <boost/cstdint.hpp> already provides support for long long on those platforms that provide it. It seems quite strange that I can have uintmax_t be a nonstandard integer type, but uint_t<N>::fast cannot be a nonstandard integer type. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
