Re: [Boost-users] Portable SafeInt?

From: Troels Arvin (troels_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-31 17:33:22

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:38:50 -0800, Delfin Rojas wrote:
>> I'm wondering: Does Boost have a class like Microsoft's SafeInt?
>> (Portable, of course.)
>> 
>> If not: Does anyone have some good guidelines on how to make code (on
>> Linux) integer overflow safe? (Here: Safe == exception 
>> generating.) I'm thinking specialized compilers, etc.
>> 
> 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/numeric/conversion/doc/numeric_cast.html

So the answer to my first question is that there is no SafeInt-like class
in Boost?

About the link to numeric_cast:
But that doesn't catch cases where -e.g.- an integer is incremented beyond
its limit (overflowing), right?

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