Re: pointer casts(newbie)
James Kanze wrote:
On Feb 9, 4:56 pm, "Thomas J. Gritzan" <phygon_antis...@gmx.de> wrote:
Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:
James Kanze wrote:
template< typename T >
void
dump(
std::ostream& dest,
T const& obj )
{
IOSave saver( dest ) ;
dest.setf( std::ios::hex, std::ios::basefield ) ;
dest.fill( '0' ) ;
unsigned char const*current
= reinterpret_cast< unsigned char const* >( &obj ) ;
unsigned char const*end = current + sizeof( T ) ;
while ( current != end ) {
dest << std::setw( 2 ) << *current ;
++ current ;
if ( current != end ) {
dest << ' ' ;
}
}
}
[...]
IOSave ???
I bet it's a RAII class that restores the state of the ostream
on exit, so that the user of this function doesn't
accidentally output numbers in hex with fillchar '0'.
Exactly. I've been using it for almost 15 years now. I've sort
of assumed that everyone has something like it in their toolkit.
That sure is handy. Just added it :-)
Thanks
Kai-Uwe Bux
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