Re: const and proxies of objects

From:

"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:14:02 +0200

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* Kai-Uwe Bux, on 03.06.2010 21:09:

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

* Kai-Uwe Bux, on 03.06.2010 19:45:

... (Beware: int may not be
universally appropriate, e.g., for file-backed containers std::streamoff
might be appropriate; and that is larger than int on some systems.)

prtdiff_t covers most of it in practice on current desktop systems for
in-memory containers.

[...]

For file-backed containers, you might want to use long long or unsigned long
long, which may or may not be the same as ptrdiff_t or size_t.

<requoting snipped part>
stream positions are a special case on 32-bit systems. Since standard arithmetic
doesn't generally suffice a simple typedef is of dubious advantage. I'd say
negative advantage...

<quote
src="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/iostreams/doc/functions/positioning.html"
emphasis="mine">
The header <boost/iostreams/positioning.hpp> provides the definition of the
integral type boost::iostreams::stream_offset, capable of holding arbitrary
stream offsets on most platforms, together with the definition of two functions,
offset_to_position and position_to_offset, for converting between stream_offset
and std::streampos.

The type std::streampos is required to be able to hold an arbitrary stream
position, but it is not an intergral type. Although std::streampos is
interconvertible with the integral type std::streamoff, the conversion from
std::streampos to std::streamoff *may not be faithful* for large (64-bit)
values. The integral type boost::iostreams::stream_offset is intended as a
replacement for std::streamoff, with the implicit conversions to and from
std::streampos being replaced by explicit conversion functions.

The implementation of offset_to_position and position_to_offset relies on
implementation defined behavior, and is guaranteed to work correctly for large
values only for standard libraries which define std::streamoff to be 64-bit type
or for which the Boost Iostreams library has been explicitly configured.
</quote>
</requoting snipped part>

Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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