[Boost-users] boost/limits.hpp and GCC 3.2.3

From: Dave Steffen (dgsteffen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-10 11:47:42

Folks,

It looks to me like numeric_limits on GCC 3.2.3 is broken;
specifically, 

              numeric_limits<double>::has_infinity = false
              numeric_limits<double>::infinity() == 0

I suspect boost/limits.hpp could fix this if it knew to do so; but
since <limits> exists, boost/limits.hpp doesn't 'fix' anything.  Does
anyone have thoughts about (reasonably portable) ways to "convince"
boost/limits.hpp to provide numeric_limits even if the compiler
already has one?

Thanks!

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