Re: [boost] numeric_limits defect?

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (Gabriel.Dos-Reis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-10-20 10:42:50

"David Abrahams" <abrahams_at_[hidden]> writes:

| From: "Gabriel Dos Reis" <Gabriel.Dos-Reis_at_[hidden]>
| 
| > | ... What if you have a user-defined floating
| > | type that is denorm_indeterminate?
| > 
| > You're stuck -- from the standards point of view.  
| 
| That is what I'm claiming may be a defect.

Well, I disagree.  The standard can't give meaning to something it
knows nothing about (the user defined floating type).

Even if the user-defined floating point type has denorm_absent, what
do you think min() should be?

-- Gaby