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From: Klemens Morgenstern (klemensdavidmorgenstern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-11-19 22:03:59


On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 6:26 PM Klemens Morgenstern <
klemensdavidmorgenstern_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM Alexander Grund via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> >> maybe a related question - how to you handle overflows - for example
>> >> reading a too large value into a float?
>> > That's not supported, you'll need to provide a double or a 64 bit int.
>> What do you mean by "not supported"? What happens when you read a value
>> larger than INT_MAX to an int? Or a value exceeding FLOAT_MAX but still
>> using a float?
>> Will those be silently truncated, UB in case of int, wrapped to inf for
>> float?
>>
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> It won't compile. You can't read into an `int` implicitly.
>

Correction: I misremembered that part and didn't double check.
You can read into an int implicitly, but you cannot read into a float, only
double.

So you can get an integer overflow if you're not careful.


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