Re: [boost] Macro fo rBOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_MAX_DIGITS10 or useBOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_LOWEST

Subject: Re: [boost] Macro fo rBOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_MAX_DIGITS10 or useBOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_LOWEST
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-11 12:20:45

>I have recently used BOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_LOWEST to act as a proxy for 
>support of
> numeric_limits<T>:: max_digits10 (as correctly suggested by John Maddock).
>
> Do we need yet another  new macro for this, say
>
> BOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_MAX_DIGITS10
>
> or continue to use  BOOST_NO_NUMERIC_LIMITS_LOWEST as a proxy.
>
> I think the latter will suffice (despite its unfortunate name for this 
> task).
>
> But I think an addition to the configuration macro reference docs would be 
> useful.

Actually, this is one C++11 macro that Marshall missed for renaming.  Maybe 
if we asked him nicely ;-)  he would volunteer to rename this one to 
BOOST_NO_CXX11_NUMERIC_LIMITS?

Cheers, John.