Re: [boost] Is there interest in portable integer overflow detection, with policy based handling?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there interest in portable integer overflow detection, with policy based handling?
From: Ben Robinson (cppmaven_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-23 00:10:14

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Bytheway
<jbytheway+boost_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> Would you be open to providing assembly implementations to supplement
> the existing portable implementation if there was demand and they were
> faster?
>
> I am certainly open to specializing the implementation for specific
platforms, once the portable implementation gains support and is approved
for Boost.  Adding optimizations for specific platoforms does not seem
outside the goals of the Boost, provided a fully portable implementation
exists.

Thank you,

Ben Robinson

> John Bytheway
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