RE: [boost] boost::rational test program

From: Moore, Paul (paul.moore_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-16 04:48:05

From: Stephen Silver [mailto:boost_at_[hidden]]
> I've written a program that runs a hundred or so simple tests on
> boost::rational.  In addition to the operator< bugs that I posted
> yesterday, this test program found problems with lcm() (sometimes
> returns negative numbers, and lcm(0,0) causes division by zero),
> and with operator>> (input errors not always handled correctly).
> I've uploaded the test program to:
> 
> http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/cpp/rational.zip
> 
> This zip file also contains a modified version of rational.hpp
> that passes all the tests (for the short, int, long and Integer
> specializations, where Integer is an arbitrary-precision type based
> on GMP mpz_t).  This modified version compiles with both GCC 2.95.2
> and Borland C++ 5.5.1 (but almost certainly won't compile 
> with MSVC++). 

Thanks, I'll look at this soon.
Paul.