Re: rvalue references in libstdc++

["Chris Jefferson" <chris at bubblescope dot net>]

On 30/04/07, Howard Hinnant <hhinnant@apple.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Chris Jefferson wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been looking at updating the v7 branch to support "true" rvalue
> > references. The code already there which implements it with a
> > wrapper-hack will (purposefully) map very easily to the "true"
> > semantics.
>
> When faced with this same challenge in the CodeWarrior library I had
> good luck with the technique outlined here:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/
> n1771.html#old_move

I used to do that. My only reason for not doing that is that people
who are compiling in C++03 mode might not want to gain a std::move /
std::forward function which they weren't expecting...

Chris