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Add "C++03 support for C++11 features" Section at the suggestion of Philip Bennefall.

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@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ requested by formal review</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Other-changes-since-formal-review">Other changes since
formal review</a><br>
<a href="#Compatibility">Compatibility with interim releases</a><br>
<a href="#C++03-support">C++03 support for C++11 features</a><br>
<a href="#Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a><br>
</td>
</tr>
@@ -164,8 +165,9 @@ integers. The types may be aligned.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Boost Endian is a header-only library. C++03 compilers are supported. C++11 features
affecting interfaces, such as <code>noexcept</code>, are used only if available.</p>
<p>Boost Endian is a header-only library. C++11 features
affecting interfaces, such as <code>noexcept</code>, are used only if available.
See <a href="#C++03-support">C++03 support for C++11 features</a> for details.</p>
<h2><a name="Choosing">Choosing</a> between conversion functions, buffer types,
and arithmetic types</h2>
@@ -492,18 +494,51 @@ BOOST_ENDIAN_DEPRECATED_NAMES</code> be defined. It should only be used while
transitioning to the official Boost release of the library as it will be removed
in some future release.</p>
<h2><a name="C++03-support">C++03 support</a> for C++11 features</h2>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111">
<tr>
<td><b>C++11 Feature</b></td>
<td><b>Action with C++03 Compilers </b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Scoped enums </td>
<td>Uses header <code class="computeroutput">
<a href="http://www.boost.org/libs/core/doc/html/core/scoped_enum.html">
<span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">core</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">scoped_enum</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span></a></code><span class="identifier">
to emulate C++11 scoped enums.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>noexcept</code></td>
<td><span class="identifier">Uses BOOST_NOEXCEPT macro, which is defined as
null for C++03.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>C++11 PODs (<a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2342.htm">N2342</a>)</td>
<td><span class="identifier">Takes advantage of C++03 compilers often
relaxing C++03 POD rules, but see Limitations
<a href="buffers.html#Limitations">here</a> and
<a href="arithmetic.html#Limitations">here</a>. Also see macros for explicit
POD control <a href="buffers.html#Compilation">here</a> and
<a href="arithmetic.html#Compilation">here</a>.</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2><a name="Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></h2>
<p>Comments and suggestions were received from Adder, Benaka Moorthi,
Christopher Kohlhoff, Cliff Green, Daniel James, Gennaro Proto, Giovanni Piero
Deretta, Gordon Woodhull, dizzy, Hartmut Kaiser, Jeff Flinn, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, John Filo, John
Maddock, Kim Barrett, Marsh Ray, Martin Bonner, Mathias Gaunard, Matias
Capeletto, Neil Mayhew, Paul Bristow, Pierre Talbot, Phil Endecott, Pyry Jahkola,
Capeletto, Neil Mayhew, Paul Bristow, Peter Dimov, Pierre Talbot, Phil Endecott,
<span class="gI">
<span email="philip@blastbay.com" name="Philip Bennefall" class="gD">Philip
Bennefall,</span></span> Pyry Jahkola,
Rene Rivera, Robert Stewart, Roland Schwarz, Scott McMurray, Sebastian Redl, Tim
Blechmann, Tim Moore, tymofey, Tomas Puverle, Vincente Botet, Yuval Ronen and
Vitaly Budovsk. Apologies if anyone has been missed.</p>
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<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes, 2011, 2013</p>
<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. See
<a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/ LICENSE_1_0.txt</a></p>