From: Mat Marcus (mmarcus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-08 12:45:39
The formal review of Dynamic Bitset by Chuck Alison and Jeremy
Siek
will commence today Saturday June 8th and run through Monday,
June 17th.
The library is currently available at
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/dyn_bitset.tar.gz>
Below is an excerpt from the library's documentation:
The dyn_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides
accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[]
and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can
apply to builtin integers, such as operator&& and
operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at
runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the
dyn_bitset.
Each bit represents either the Boolean value true (set) or
false (reset). To toggle a bit is to change the value to
true if it is false and to false if it is true. Each bit
has a non-negative position pos. The position pos == 0
corresponds to the least significant bit and pos == size()
- 1 is the most significant bit. When converting an
instance of dyn_bitset to or from an unsigned long, the bit
position pos corresponds to the bit value 1 << pos.
The dyn_bitset class is nearly identical to the std::bitset
class. The difference is that the size of the dyn_bitset
(the number of bits) is specified at run-time during the
construction of a dyn_bitset object, whereas the size of a
std::bitset is specified at compile-time through an integer
template parameter.
For information about submitting a Formal Review, see
http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm
Please try out the library and comment during the review
period. Be sure to say whether or not you think the library
should be accepted by Boost.
Compiler notes: This library has been tested using the
following compiler platforms:
Gcc 2.95 and 3.01
Kai C++
Metrowerks Codewarrior 8 (beta, Mac)
Visual C++ 7.0
Comeau
The library presently requires template friend support and is
known not to compile with CodeWarrior 7.2 or Visual C++ 6.0.
The library has not been tested with Borland.
The Formal Review manager is Mat Marcus.