Ted.Belding@umich.edu (Theodore C. Belding) wrote:
>I was wondering what the current status of the <bitstring> header is.

It's obsolete. Use "vector<bool>", the intent is that
this will be implemented as a specialisation of
the vector template (to ensure only 1 bit per bool is
used, and to make things like iteration work
as efficiently as possible -- a non-trivial task
considering you can't have a reference to less than
a byte of storage)


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I was wondering what the current status of the <bitstring> header is.  The
header is mentioned by Plauger as part of the proposed Standard C++
Library, but he goes on to say that the header may be replaced by the
STL.  I didn't see any reference to <bitstring> or the
bitstring/bit_string class in the ANSI working paper (I did find the
bitset<N> class template for fixed-length bit strings).  Is there any
variable-length bit string class in the proposed standard?  Thanks for any
info!
-Ted

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