[boost] Re: integer_traits (was: Proposal: random numberlibrary)

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-02-22 10:54:33

At 02:44 AM 2/22/00 -0800, Gavin Collings wrote:

>> 
>> [Microsoft got it wrong.]
>> 
>> Is that because runtest<> ist a template function, or because
>> std::numeric_traits<> is busted on MSVC?
>> 
>
>The problem was that it doesn't deal very well with explicit calls
to
>specializations of the test function ( runtest<bool>( "bool" ) ).
I've
>just gone through and done it manually.  The results are now: -
>
> ...

Gavin, sorry to be so dense, but when you said "done it manually"
what do you mean?  How did you do it?

Or more to the point, is there a reasonable workaround for VC++ ?

--Beman