Re: [Boost-users] Ann: Floating Point Utilities Review starts today

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-18 13:53:48

Robert Ramey wrote:
> Johan Råde wrote:
>> 1. Are the trap_infinity and trap_nan flags a good idea?
>> I added them at Robert Ramey's request, but I'm not convinced myself.
> 
> Hmm - I don't remember requesting this - of course that doesn't mean
> I didn't do it.  

You certainly did. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/19986

This post was the original motivation for writing these utilities.

(Robert suggested separate classes for the trapping and non-trapping behavior.
Instead I made it the same classes, but with flags to enable to trapping.)

--Johan