[boost] Re: Insufficient significant digits using lexical_cast

From: Daryle Walker (dwalker07_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-19 22:03:58

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

> Agreed - but what do we do if NOT is_iec559?
>
> Give up?  #error "Can only work with IEEE 754!"
>
> Or choose a massive amount of decimal digits?  eg 40?

Why not just use what we're currently doing, use 
numeric_limits<>::digits10 and hope that it's accurate enough?

Daryle