On Thursday, February 10th, 2022 at 3:40 PM, Inbal Levi via Lib-Ext <lib-ext@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
From the Abstract:
[...] This paper aims to make formatting pointer types more useful, reducing the need for users to write their own formatters or casting a pointer type to an integer type.
The argument "pointer types should
share the same amount of formatting
options as as integers" is undefended.
To explain what do I mean -- I have
a stronger need for seeing
output:
at 00007ffb`a67fb331 myLib!myNs::SomeCls
Address is an identity of object in C++,
so when printing an address, I want to
see what is there. I hope we can build
the understanding of pointers != integers
aware memory object model).
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Zhihao Yuan, ID lichray
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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