Re: [boost] Is floating_point_comparison.hpp general purpose tool?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is floating_point_comparison.hpp general purpose tool?
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-02 07:42:35

I have, for my own purposes, refactored Gennidy's Boost.Test code - attached -
with a demo.

Is this of any interest or does it meet your needs?  (The location you suggest
sounds sensible - except that people may have trouble finding it, an existing
difficulty with the math toolkit structure.  Doxygenation might help this, but
is a massive job - see the doxygen comments in fp_compare.hpp.)

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On
Behalf Of
> Rhys Ulerich
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:45 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Is floating_point_comparison.hpp general purpose tool?
> 
> > I'm wondering why the floating-point algorithms [1] implementation
> > in floating_point_comparison.hpp lives in Boost UTF.
> 
> I've also wondered this and have used UTF's floating point comparison
> algorithms outside test code.  Creating a new header like
> <boost/math/fpcompare.hpp> to parallel the existing
> <boost/math/fpclassify.hpp> under the floating point utils [1] could
> be useful.
> 
> - Rhys
> 
> [1]
>
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_toolkit
/utils.html
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