From 01146c95588a4b98249101f98f09ec29027a79b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Dimov <pdimov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 01:06:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add char and char16_t overloads of endian_reverse

---
 include/boost/endian/conversion.hpp | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/boost/endian/conversion.hpp b/include/boost/endian/conversion.hpp
index 9da4225..a316a3d 100644
--- a/include/boost/endian/conversion.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/endian/conversion.hpp
@@ -282,6 +282,20 @@ namespace endian
 # endif
   }
 
+  // overloads for char and char16_t, which otherwise use int32_t
+
+  inline char endian_reverse(char x) BOOST_NOEXCEPT
+  {
+    return static_cast<char>( endian_reverse( static_cast<uint8_t>(x) ) );
+  }
+
+#if !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_CHAR16_T)
+  inline char16_t endian_reverse(char16_t x) BOOST_NOEXCEPT
+  {
+    return static_cast<char16_t>( endian_reverse( static_cast<uint16_t>(x) ) );
+  }
+#endif
+
   template <class EndianReversible >
   inline EndianReversible  big_to_native(EndianReversible  x) BOOST_NOEXCEPT
   {