My first impression is that all three of these are clutter to an already very cluttered language ...
1.) Coming from embedded programming, I can see the utility of `std::unreachable`. But shouldn't this be a compiler directive? Or a standardized #pragma? Can someone more knowledgeable in C++ say whether using functions as markers is a common mechanism in std:: ?
2.)Maybe the example is bad here, as it doesn't even save typing. (18 chars for `std::to_underlying` vs. 16 for `static_cast<int>`. The 'old' variant seems more expressive to boot. If anything, how about `static_cast<auto>`? or <underlying> ...
3.) The usefulness of `std::byteswap` to convert data to network byte order seems trivial vs. the venerable old `htonl` family of functions. `std::byteswap` seems more like intrinsics meant to expose possibly present target machine instructions to the user. Like `std::unreachable` this is probably of most use to embedded / low-level programming. This may be a deficiency in the article...
If it's not obvious, I'm not a big C++ fan and read the article with C-tinted glasses :)
1.) Coming from embedded programming, I can see the utility of `std::unreachable`. But shouldn't this be a compiler directive? Or a standardized #pragma? Can someone more knowledgeable in C++ say whether using functions as markers is a common mechanism in std:: ?
2.)Maybe the example is bad here, as it doesn't even save typing. (18 chars for `std::to_underlying` vs. 16 for `static_cast<int>`. The 'old' variant seems more expressive to boot. If anything, how about `static_cast<auto>`? or <underlying> ...
3.) The usefulness of `std::byteswap` to convert data to network byte order seems trivial vs. the venerable old `htonl` family of functions. `std::byteswap` seems more like intrinsics meant to expose possibly present target machine instructions to the user. Like `std::unreachable` this is probably of most use to embedded / low-level programming. This may be a deficiency in the article...
If it's not obvious, I'm not a big C++ fan and read the article with C-tinted glasses :)