Re: [boost] VIGRA and GIL -- Review of Generic Image Library (GIL)

From: Jose (jmalv04_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-17 04:44:08

On 10/17/06, Michael Walter <michael.walter_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On 10/17/06, Jose <jmalv04_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > One of the basic things is what they call campling (== promotion traits
> ?)
>
> Are you referring to what is commonly called "clamping"? If yes, I
> don't think this is what promotion traits are for (but maybe my
> definition of the latter is off).

I stated that I am not an expert so I hope this gets explained by the
experts.

Actually I only now about clamping as per the mentioned C++ book but I have
not looked at promotion traits (but I inferred from the messages that
promotion traits handle the overflow/underflow cases)