Re: [boost] [serialization]Serialisation/deserialisationoffloating-point values

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-02 10:54:40

Paul A Bristow wrote:

>The Standard is imprecise on this issue, but I feel it is a very poor do
>that such a bizarre small range of values should be wrong.
>
>Feels like an off-by-one rounding bug to me.
>  
>
I tend to agree with the MS engineers here. I've found out only 
yesterday that the FPU/math library is not entirely deterministic in 
some calculations (including square roots and trigonometry, typical 3d 
stuff), so I think worrying about serialization/deserialization is useless.

Sebastian Redl