Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Ann: Floating Point Utilities Reviewstarts today

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-27 05:59:56

John Maddock wrote:
> Johan Råde wrote:
>> I think I have a fix for this too.
>> Just remove line 393 (++it;) in nonfinite_num_facets.h.
> 
> Confirmed, cheers, John. 

I think there is a lesson to be learned here about how difficult it is to write good tests.
What happened was that when parsing 1.#INF the stream pointer was moved one step to far.
So if the input had been say 1.#INF\t then the tab would have been lost.
This could cause serious errors when reading a tab separated text file.
None of the tests detected this problem.

--Johan