Re: [boost] [boost.test] Floating point comparison fails to compilewith templated value type

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-02 15:10:41

"Hugo Duncan" <hugoduncan_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> I was wanting to check two boost::numeric::interval's for closeness, but
> find I get a compile error.  The below fails to compile, with the error
> messages shown.
>
> I believe this is because
>   i) the comparison operator for interval is templated,
>  ii) boost.test wraps one of the values with a readonly_property
> and therefore the template is not an exact match.  Changing the tolerance
> to an interval does not change anything.  This is with MSVC8 and with gcc
> 3.4.4 on windows.
>
> Is this a bug, a missing feature - or am I misusing BOOST_CHECK_CLOSE ?

I've fixed in local version. I'll commit it when I have a time.

Gennadiy