On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:23:47PM +0000, Toby Gray wrote:
> QNX gave an error with some of the overloads in FieldValueHandlerBase.
> The problem appears to be that std::time_t on QNX is just a typedef for
> std::uint32_t, where as on my linux system time_t is "long int". I can't
> think of a solution which doesn't:
> a) require templates (which would defeat the point of FieldValueHandlerBase)
> b) require the explicit mention of every possible integer type (which is
> not nice as it would require fiddling with where time_t is used in
> places like r_calendar to avoid ambiguous overload calls)
> c) switch to using something like boost::variant, requiring boost to
> compile Barry (which would mean finding ports of Boost for Android and QNX)
>
> Do you have any thoughts on any other alternatives?
Good catch! Thanks.
There's the d) option of creating a struct BarryTimeT which just wraps
time_t.
This might allow for useful functions to be attached to our time type
as well.
What do you think?
- Chris
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