Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Boost.Endian mini-review
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-26 16:42:29
Beman Dawes wrote:
> Perhaps an error checking policy could be added as a template parameter,
> with two supplied - one a nop, the other throwing an exception on
> overflow.
Given that in many, if not most, cases, the check is a no-op - when the
value type and the bits match - it might instead make sense to make the
methods conditionally noexcept when the bits are enough to store everything
in range, and always throw on overflow otherwise.