Re: [Boost-users] [multi_array] size_type

From: Ronald Garcia (garcia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-24 14:29:09

Hi Daniel,

So far multi_array punts on this issue as well.

Cheers,
ron

On May 3, 2006, at 3:16 AM, Daniel Mitchell wrote:

> It seems clear that since each dimension of a multi_array can have  
> (I presume)
> extent up to numeric_limits<size_type>::max(), size_type isn't  
> always large
> enough to hold the actual size of the multi_array and  
> multi_array::size() may
> overflow. I have a similar problem with some of my own code, and  
> I'd like to
> know how the multi_array designers approached this problem--my  
> approach so
> far is to punt the problem to my users. Thanks.
>
> D.
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