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<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="#Future-directions">Future directions</a><br>
<a href="#Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a><br>
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<td><code>noexcept</code></td>
<td><span class="identifier">Uses BOOST_NOEXCEPT macro, which is defined as
null for C++03.</span></td>
null for compilers not supporting this C++11 feature.</span></td>
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<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
<td><span class="identifier">Takes advantage of C++03 compilers that
relax 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
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<h2><a name="Future-directions">Future directions</a></h2>
<p><b>Standardization.</b> The plan is to submit Boost.Endian to the C++
standards committee for possible inclusion in a Technical Specification or the
C++ standard itself.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Specializations for <code>numeric_limits</code>.</b> Roger Leigh
requested that all <code>boost::endian</code> types provide <code>numeric_limits</code>
specializations. See <a href="https://github.com/boostorg/endian/issues/4">
GitHub issue 4</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><b>Character buffer support.</b> Peter Dimov pointed out during the
mini-review that getting and setting basic arithmetic types (or <code>&lt;cstdint&gt;</code>
equivalents) from/to an offset into an array of unsigned char is a common need.
See <a href="http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/01/219574.php">
Boost.Endian mini-review posting</a>.</p>
<p><b>Out-of-range detection.</b> Peter Dimov pointed suggested during the
mini-review that throwing an exception on buffer values being out-of-range might
be desirable. See the end of
<a href="http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/01/219659.php">this posting</a>
and subsequent replies.</p>
<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, Peter Dimov, Pierre Talbot, Phil Endecott,
Capeletto, Neil Mayhew, <span class="gI">
<span email="ml@vdspek.org" name="Olaf van der Spek" class="gD">Olaf van der
Spek, </span></span>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
Rene Rivera, Robert Stewart, Roger Leigh, 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
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