Re: [boost] rational.hpp

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-16 20:51:13

At 09:15 PM 1/16/2001 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:

 >> Instead of long/unsigned long you may consider using boost::intmax_t
 >> and boost::uintmax_t from boost/cstdint.hpp, although integer_test.cpp
 >> does not seem to work on Win32 / MSVC 6.0sp4 / STLport 4.0.
 >
 >Blech. More MSVC breakage. (Am I right in reading this as
 >boost/cstdint.hpp is not going to work right on MSVC?)

It isn't just VC++.  long long support is spotty with other compilers, 
according to some recent mail from Jens:

 > - Neither the gcc 2.95.2 standard library nor STLport 4.0 seem to have
 >"long long" overloads for operator<< in their iostream library, which 
means
 >that libs/integer/integer_test.cpp does not extend to "long long" easily
 >or even portably.

Too bad.

--Beman