Re: [boost] BigInt divide-by-zero handling

From: Pedro Lamarão (pedro.lamarao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-17 10:17:47

Jonathan Ray escreveu:
> I'm planning to finish the BigInt library for SoC.   I'm looking for
> some input about whether divide-by-zero should throw an exception, or
> just store a NaN and propagate that through any subsequent operations.
>   Since ordinary ints just throw an exception, and my goal is to make
> BigInts have virtually the same interface as ints but never overflow, it seems
> reasonable to throw an exception.   Any objections?

std::logic_error comes to mind.

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