27 Jan
2021
27 Jan
'21
5:17 p.m.
Edward Diener wrote:
On 1/27/2021 3:41 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
Assumptions about alignment, endianness and overflow semantics and FP specifics are also not limited to lower level libraries and tend to crop up at any level.
Granted ! But I think that the vast majority of Boost libraries do not deal in these issues.
It's surprisingly easy for platform-specific assumptions to sneak into ostensibly portable code. If it's not tested, it's not guaranteed to work.