220 30225 article Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "D. B." Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: P0298: A byte type definition: with undefined pointer arithmetic? 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[2a00:1450:400c:c09::22e]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rl18si81020475wjb.99.2017.01.04.02.54.34 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:54:34 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of db0451@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c09::22e as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c09::22e; Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id t79so452847072wmt.0 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:54:34 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.28.74.18 with SMTP id x18mr44858013wma.118.1483527274428; Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:54:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.28.144.66 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2017 02:54:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: db0451@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of db0451@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c09::22e as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=db0451@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:30225 Archived-At: --94eb2c074a043509470545429c82 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I'm very interested in the resolution of that issue for the same reasons. Currently, by my understanding, the idea that any object can be read as a "sequence" of ((un)signed) char* is not massively useful, when one seemingly cannot iterate past the first element in that sequence... It then means even memcpy cannot be implemented without special magic by the compiler. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/d/msgid/std-proposals/CACGiwhER_fU%3DbVY0nob5Tap9s%3DAPgmeFS6sx6HQfnoPEKJjDVg%40mail.gmail.com. --94eb2c074a043509470545429c82 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I'm very interested in the resolution of that iss= ue for the same reasons.

Currently, by my understanding, the i= dea that any object can be read as a "sequence" of ((un)signed) c= har* is not massively useful, when one seemingly cannot iterate past the fi= rst element in that sequence... It then means even memcpy cannot be impleme= nted without special magic by the compiler.

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