[SciPy-Dev] bool wrapper in sparse

[Blake Griffith]

So basically I define a class that behaves like bool, but add compiler
specific parameters to make instance of this class 1 byte?


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:

> 26.06.2013 19:34, Nathaniel Smith kirjoitti:
> [clip]
> > In c++, user classes can't inherit from primitive types. Thus spake
> Bjarne.
> >
> > Make a memory-layout compatible class (i.e., one with a single npy_bool
> > member), and then cast back and forth as needed?
>
> I somehow doubt that
>
>         class Foo
>         {
>                 char b;
>         };
>
>         assert(sizeof(b) == sizeof(char));
>
> is guaranteed by C++ standards. However, we can just start inserting
> compiler-specific packing pragmas for those cases where it isn't true.
>
> For safety, however, it's probably best to include the assert statement
> in one of the routines. The compiler should optimize it away, and it
> will break scipy test suite if the file is miscompiled.
>
> --
> Pauli Virtanen
>
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