Re: Byteswapping floating point types

[Andrew Troschinetz <ast at arlut dot utexas dot edu>]

On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:16 PM, David Hagood wrote:

> I'd take it one step further, and make the byteswapped objects their  
> own types:


I agree, this is a good idea. However I think my co-worker would argue  
against the additional overhead and in favor of the ease of use of a  
simple function template. It seems we both feel that his idea isn't  
safe though ;)

Have you looked at Beman Dawes's preposed Boost.Endian library? It  
seems like it might be quite useful in writing a "swapped" type.

The other alternative is to simply return a byte-array (or vector or  
deque or whatever), but that's less featureful than a swapped type  
could be.

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