Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | In the case of a 1-dimension space, connected and convex set are | equals: they are segments (or half-line or line or empty). Date | manipulated by the date-time library are in a 1-dimension space (the | real line) and periods are segments

Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Jeff Garland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 18 Aug 2003 11:43:26 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote | Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | In the case of a 1-dimension space, connected and convex set are | | equals: they are segments (or half-line or line or empty). Date

Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Victor A. Wagner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | how about span ? when read as the period of time spanned by these two, I can make sense of it, even not as a mathematician :-) Well, I don't know how it sounds to native speakers. -- Gaby ___

Re: [boost] Re: Date iterators in Boost Date-Time

2003-08-18 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | At 03:18 PM 8/18/2003, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote: | | At Monday 2003-08-18 11:39, you wrote: | Victor A. Wagner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | how about span ? | | when read as the period of time spanned by these two, I can make | sense

Re: ublas and gcc (was: Re: [boost] Re: Compiler status for GCC 3.3)

2003-08-14 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Walter) writes: [...] | This whole thing (-fabi-version) is messy. It is what one gets by | taking users for beta testers ;-) | | That's not the whole story. When testing with GCC 3.3.1 prerelease I noticed | that setting -fabi-version isn't necessary anymore. So I

Re: ublas and gcc (was: Re: [boost] Re: Compiler status for GCC 3.3)

2003-08-14 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | At 07:02 PM 8/10/2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | More seriously, did you have a chance to test GCC-3.3.1? | | I just tested 3.3.1 on Windows, and the 7 ublas tests which had been | failing on 3.3 are now passing. The variant libraries variant_test4

Re: [boost] boost/math octonion/quaternion failures?

2003-08-14 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Current GCC and Intel compilers don't appear to allow using | declarations at function scope, according to a bug report. As far as I can tell, only versions of GCC pre 3.0 ignored using declarations in function templates. Which versions of GCC are you

Re: [boost] Re: is_nan

2003-07-26 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | En réponse à Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | [snip] | | | On a more general side, please keep in mind that *signaling* NaNs are meant to | | trap when used (used can be a simple copy, the standard leaves it | | implementation-defined). | | They trap

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan

2003-07-26 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | | What don't you understand in the expression isnan is a private function? | | What being private has to do with being trapping or not? | | Guillaume point is that this isnan(), being an implementation | detail, is known to never recieve a sNAN,

Re: [boost] Re: is_nan

2003-07-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Sorry for the late reply, I was enjoying some peaceful holidays. There is no reason for sorrying. | En réponse à Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Fernando Cacciola wrote

Re: [boost] Re: is_nan

2003-07-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | En réponse à Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | [snip] | | | We are speaking about quiet NaNs here. And so I | | was justifying why the interval library computes v != v in order to | | detect quiet NaNs. I never intended to speak about signaling NaNs

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values?

2003-07-17 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Paul A. Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Thanks but this still leaves me feeling that there is a need for a | 'Standard and Portable' way of indicating 'missing value', sorry if I sounded negative, that wasn't the intent. I would to make sure we all undertsand and agree on what is going on.

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan - how to flag missing values?

2003-07-16 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Paul A. Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Signalling NaNs are used to indicate missing initialization values. | | This is OK for catching missing initialization by mistake - but not | for OK for deliberately missing because there really is no value | (measurement missing). There is not

Re: [boost] Compiler status for GCC 3.3

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Walter) writes: | - Original Message - | From: Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Boost mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 12:06 PM | Subject: Re: [boost] Compiler status for GCC 3.3 | | | [...] | | | I'm not sure about

Re: [boost] Re: Compiler status for GCC 3.3

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | At 02:44 AM 7/3/2003, Giovanni Bajo wrote: | | On Friday, July 04, 2003 12:38 AM [GMT+1=CET], | David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | On the other hand if your native compiler is GCC and your system was | not configured with that setting,

Re: [boost] Re: is_nan

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Fernando Cacciola wrote: | | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message | news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Dear boosters, | | | | seems like this code | | | | template

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | Most compilers provide a non standard extension for this purpose. | For instance, Borland uses _isnan. | In general, these extensions are found on float. | | In fact, since it is not specified by the C++ standard, isnan comes from |

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Fernando Cacciola wrote: | | Thanks to Gabriel we may have an is_nan() right now. | Is there anything else that the interval library uses which might be better | packed as a compiler-platform specific routine? | | All the

Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Paul A. Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I think this would be excellent (and overdue). It needs to support double and | long double (and facilitate UDTs too if possible). | | There is also the matter of signalling and quiet NaN. Although signalling NaN | may cause an hardware exception if

Re: [boost] Re: is_nan

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Joel de Guzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Fernando Cacciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in | | Yes. It is an incorrect (unfortunately popular) | implementation. | | Right. We should say that more often. It is incorrect | however popular

Re: [boost] is_nan

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 4 Jul 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | Toon Knapen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | seems like this code | | | | template typename T | | bool is_nan( const T v ) | | { | | return std::numeric_limitsT

Re: [boost] Re: Compiler status for GCC 3.3

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ben Woodhead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hello | | Was this -fabi-version flag just there for testing different version or do | users have to know about this? The latter. It is a documented flag, primarily designed for packagers and/or distributors. | Could you test the compiler version and

Re: [boost] Re: mpl/loki

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Howard Hinnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Another possible spelling for this animal is: | | class nat {nat();}; | | Inspired from nan. In this case means Not A Type. Ahem, a class is a type, no matter how you name it. | It is nice and | short which comes in handy for when there are a lot of

Re: [boost] Re: mpl/loki

2003-07-13 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Howard Hinnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | Howard Hinnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Another possible spelling for this animal is: | | | | class nat {nat();}; | | | | Inspired from nan. In this case means Not A Type

Re: [boost] is_nan

2003-07-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
jvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Dear boosters, | | seems like this code | | template typename T | bool is_nan( const T v ) | { | return std::numeric_limitsT::has_quiet_NaN (v != v); | } | | does not work correctly on some machines. Yes. It is an incorrect

Re: [boost] is_nan

2003-07-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Toon Knapen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | seems like this code | | template typename T | bool is_nan( const T v ) | { | return std::numeric_limitsT::has_quiet_NaN (v != v); | } | | does not work correctly on some machines. | | Could you be more specific. On

Re: [boost] Compiler status for GCC 3.3

2003-06-30 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Walter) writes: | - Original Message - | From: Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Boost mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:55 AM | Subject: Re: [boost] Compiler status for GCC 3.3 | | | Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [boost] Compiler status for GCC 3.3

2003-06-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Beman Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | But some of the problems are clearly GCC bugs. For example, all the | ublas tests are failing with this message: | | ...error: due to a defect in the G++ 3.2 ABI, G++ has assigned the | same mangled name to two different types... :-( Indeed, a

Re: [boost] Re: C++ Standard Library proposal - MathfunctionsforStatistics

2003-04-23 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Jason House [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | Well, *practical* can mean a number of things to different people. | Maybe performance constraints should be template parameters with default | values? Once, you have defined meaning for perfomance and workable proposal I'd be glad to consider it.

Re: [boost] Boost.signal with gcc 3.3 or gcc 3.4

2003-03-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | g++ -g -O -W -Wall -Winline -c signal_base.ii | ../../../../boost/boost/function/function_template.hpp: In constructor | ` |boost::signals::detail::signal_base_impl::signal_base_impl(const |boost::function2bool, boost::any, boost::any, |

Re: [boost] Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ken Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Alexander Terekhov wrote: | | Uhmm. In return, I venture to suggest that MS-TLS can and shall be | characterized as ``utterly busted.'' | | Fine, but the OP asked about existing practice and the bugs | don't change the fact that k can be a template

Re: [boost] Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-24 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | OK, whatever. I guess I should've said that you can instantiate a | | template on k with sensible results. Whether or not you want to call | | it a constant is another semantic matter. I'd call

Re: [boost] Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-24 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ken Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I could write... | | int fk() { return k; } | | and re-cast my template to expect a pointer to function and then | write Cfk. This is perfectly legal under the current language | rules, and gives a type whose behaviour depends on the thread that | is

Re: [boost] Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-23 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | I disagree with your conclusion. As I've said elsewhere, k can be a | | compile-time constant in the same way that X::k is a compile-time | |

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | | However, my point is that | | | |* a class is closed: that is, by the time you put the closing

Re: [boost] Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I disagree with your conclusion. As I've said elsewhere, k can be a | compile-time constant in the same way that X::k is a compile-time | constant. Certainly, you've said that. But that assertion by itself does not constitute a proof of the

Re: [boost] Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-21 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Ken Hagan wrote: | | [ ... k ... ] | | So presumably we are all now in complete agreement, except perhaps | | I, for one, believe strongly that k is nothing but | | static_casttypeof(k)*(pthread_getspecific(__k_key)); | | It *isn't* a

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-20 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Ken Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Peter Dimov wrote: | | | | k does not exist yet at compile-time (in a pointer to int form), when | | templates are instantiated. | | | | It doesn't have

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-20 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Let me reiterate, just in case somebody missed it: this is a similar | | problem to that of using a pointer/reference-to-data-member as a | | template

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Thread-Local Storage (TLS) and templates

2003-02-19 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ken Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Peter Dimov wrote: | | k does not exist yet at compile-time (in a pointer to int form), when | templates are instantiated. | | It doesn't have to. We're instantiating a template, not calling a | function, so if k has the type pointer to thread-local int

Re: [boost] integral_c on g++2.95.3

2003-02-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Joel de Guzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | | I'm not sure if you are aware of this but g++ 2.95.3 cannot | handle the casts: | | g++ 2.95.3 [no STLport] | C:/dev/boost/boost/mpl/integral_c.hpp:67: sorry, not implemented: `static_cast_expr' |not supported | by dump_expr This means that

Re: [boost] integral_c on g++2.95.3

2003-02-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Dave Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:05 AM [GMT+1=CET], | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Joel de Guzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Hi, | | I'm not sure if you are aware of this but g++ 2.95.3 cannot | handle the casts: | | g

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library TechnicalReport

2003-01-30 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [...] | templatetypename T | Vec = std::vectorT, MyAllocT ; | | This looks cool! Is someone going to write a proposal for this before | April? Yes, I'll do. | Or does this type of change not get considered at that time? Well, the notion

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Deadline for the Standard Library TechnicalReport

2003-01-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message | [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... | [...] | More accurately, there are *two* notions being considered: | | 1) typedef template; | 2) template aliasing -- the thing

Re: [boost] Re: Metaprogramming: Using static const or enum?

2003-01-12 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Terje Slettebø [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | From: Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | What I find confusing about the current rule is that it makes an | exception for integral type const static data member. I think the old | rule was less irregular. | | (Strangely enought, for long time

Re: [boost] Re: Metaprogramming: Using static const or enum?

2003-01-12 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 12 Jan 2003 10:49:09 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I believe that that sentence may have been in the first printings of | TC++PL3 [at the time, I got the third printing, which someone managed | to steel :-(] | | Here are his

Re: [boost] Metaprogramming: Using static const or enum?

2003-01-11 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Paul Mensonides [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | However, this | raises another interesting problem. Many enumerations used for this purpose | are unnamed: | | templateclass T struct is_ptr { | enum { value = false }; | }; | |

Re: [boost] Re: Metaprogramming: Using static const or enum?

2003-01-11 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 09 Jan 2003 18:02:51 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | So you propose that the presence/absence of an initializer turns an | expression designating a static data member into an rvalue or lvalue? | | I can't speak

Re: [boost] Metaprogramming: Using static const or enum?

2003-01-09 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Daniel Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Yes, a smarter compiler may do better, but such smarter compilers are | quite rare :-) | Yes, the thingy ends up in the link map (as a local symbol). | | Just to make sure: Do you vote in favor of enums? I'm a long term pro-enum (mostly because for the

Re: [boost] Re: Metaprogramming: Using static const or enum?

2003-01-09 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 09 Jan 2003 15:29:30 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I'm a long term pro-enum (mostly because for the meta programming | stuff I had to do, it works very well), but I do understand the | potential drawbacks raised by the pro

Re: [boost] Re: Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-09 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | 2) Under what circumstances is the following equivalent to the | above: | | reinterpret_castT*(p); One of the issues that distinguishly arose during this disucssion is whether reinterpret_castvoid*(ptr) is well-formed. (My compilers don't

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-08 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | If void* is not a pointer to an object then reinterpret_castvoid* | is invalid. Otherwise it just yields an undefined result. I haven't | found a definition of pointer to object in the standard; anyhow | certainly void is not an object type. void*

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-08 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | I haven't | | found a definition of pointer to object in the standard; anyhow | | certainly void is not an object type. | | void* is the generic type of pointer to object. | | Well, as I said I don't find any definition of the expression pointer

Re: [boost] Status of dangerous_cast

2002-12-08 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Eric Woodruff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | Here's a question: Since h.storage is _meant_ to be accessed by those that | do not know the type of the object inside, shouldn't it have been designed I'm afraid the above is not an accurate description of the purpose of holderT. One primary

Re: [boost] dangerous_cast

2002-12-07 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Hi, Anthony Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | You made youself clear. | | However, there are two running issues originating from a claim of Dave | that dangerous_cast might be better than reinterpret_cast in | casting from U* to T* (dangerous_cast uses the intermediate step

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-07 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Eric Woodruff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | Thus, given that h.storage is properly aligned, (which is the purpose of | the | other union member), after new(h.storage) Foo, h.storage contains a Foo | object. Thus accessing it through a pointer-to-Foo is legal, as Foo is the | dynamic type

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-07 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] | Well, in fact those subsequent paragraphs intentionally give very few | guarantee, and reinterpret_castvoid* is exactly one of the cases | which are left unspecified (the guarantee of 5.2.10/7 concerns casting | to pointers to *object types*). So I

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-07 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | --- Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Gennaro Prota [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | [...] | | | Well, in fact those subsequent paragraphs intentionally give very few | | guarantee, and reinterpret_castvoid* is exactly one of the cases

Re: [boost] dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Does this have any merit whatsoever? | | template typename T, typename U | T* dangerous_cast(U* p) | { | return static_castT*(static_castvoid*(p)); | } Is it any different from reinterpret_castT*(p) ? -- Gaby

Re: [boost] dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Does this have any merit whatsoever? | | | | template typename T, typename U | | T* dangerous_cast(U* p) | | { | | return static_castT

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Eric Woodruff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [snip] | | holderFoo h; | new (h.storage) Foo; | | What is the meaning of that syntax? placement-new: Construct a Foo at h.storage. -- Gaby ___ Unsubscribe other changes:

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Because you want to get at the T in h in a portable way. Which brings | me to my next point. Since it seems this is the only context in which this | cast is guaranteed to give a meaningful result, maybe it should be called | placement_cast? But then,

Re: [boost] dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Hmm, I have a couple of questions answers to which will help me | get your point. | | 1) Why can't you do that with reinterpret_cast? | | You can, but the results are non-portable No more non

Re: [boost] dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Peter Dimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | From: Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | | Hmm, I have a couple of questions answers to which will help me | | get your point. | | | | 1) Why

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David B. Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message | [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... | David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | [...] | | if is_pointersource_type and is_pointerdest_type | | return (d

Re: [boost] Re: dangerous_cast

2002-12-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Thanks for your patience. | | Now, imagine an implementation where the original type is remembered, | then dereferencing the pointer obtained from | | char* - void* - T* | | may just eject you

Re: [boost] Spurious g++ warnings with shared_ptr tests

2002-11-28 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [I actually wonder if we shouldn't add that flag to the GCC | toolset. That seems like a nuisance warning for Boost code] Same for the standard library implementation shipped with GCC itself. -- Gaby ___