Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6700: Exceptionless lexical_cast

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #6700: Exceptionless lexical_cast
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-30 07:21:37

#6700: Exceptionless lexical_cast
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  Reporter:  Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@…>  |      Owner:  apolukhin
      Type:  Feature Requests                  |     Status:  reopened
 Milestone:  To Be Determined                  |  Component:  lexical_cast
   Version:  Boost 1.48.0                      |   Severity:  Problem
Resolution:                                    |   Keywords:
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Comment (by Troy Korjuslommi <troykor@…>):

 I added the patch here.

 try_lexical_cast: A version which doesn't throw bad_lexical_cast. All
 other exceptions will be thrown as normal.

 Getting rid of exceptions thrown in the callbacks nothrow_overflow_handler
 and detect_precision_loss would mean rewriting boost::numeric::converter,
 which seems excessive, and futile. And it would create a dependency on
 those patches going through for this patch to be accepted. Ergo, I
 resorted to catching these exceptions to provide non throwing behavior.

 All other instances where an instance of bad_lexical_cast could be thrown
 have been replaced with a new function.

 Dropped the deprecated call-by-value fallback version
 template<typename Target, typename Source>
 bool bool try_lexical_cast(Target& result, Source arg);

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6700#comment:8>
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