[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: [rational] Announcingnewmaintainer--callforfeaturerequests

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-04 16:08:05

Peter Dimov wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>> No, I was claiming that in some cases a developer might know the
>> range of all possible inputs, and be able to reason that no overflow
>> could occur.
>
> You do understand that the range of the inputs has almost nothing to
> do with overflow, right?

I was using range in the general sense, meaning subset. Obviously for a given
computation, there is a certain subset of possible inputs which will lead to
overflow.

Jonathan