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Subject: Re: [boost] Is there interest in portable integer overflow detection, with policy based handling?
From: Antony Polukhin (antoshkka_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-21 12:18:30


2012/2/21 Ben Robinson <cppmaven_at_[hidden]>:
> The implementation is fully portable, and it provides integer types which
> can be used like the builtin integers, except they will trigger their
> policy on an overflow.

Great!
Overflow detections are widely used in Boost.Lexical_cast library, but
the implementation is not generic. I would very appreciate a header
only library for detecting overflows.

How fast is your library? Does it support unsigned long long int
overflow detection?

Best regards,
Antony Polukhin


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