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Mateusz  Åoskot
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On 17 Oct 2012 13:55, "Barend Gehrels" <barend_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  Hi Mateusz,
>
> Thanks for forwarding. In case of overflow we either have to promote
> automatically to a larger calculation type (larger than int would mean
> 64bit int), or that the user specifies that specificly...
> If users really want to "using coordinates very close to MIN/MAX values
> available for 4-byte integer", yes then the calculation type definitly has
> to be 64 bits.
>
> Regards, Barend
>
>
> On 17-10-2012 14:27, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I received this report about problem with Boost.Geoemtry from Sergey,
> one of SOCI users.
> He asked me if I can forward it to the developers, so here it is:
> (I hope the .cpp file attachment will get through.)
>
> If this problem is confirmed as a bug, Sergey is willing to submit proper
> report to the Boost Trac.
>
> Mat
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sergey Stepanov <net_storm_at_[hidden]> <net_storm_at_[hidden]>
> Date: 17 October 2012 08:12
> Subject: Found bug in Boost::geometry
> To: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz_at_[hidden]> <mateusz_at_[hidden]>
>
> Hello, Mateusz
>
> I wasn't sure whom shall I contact, but since I know you for your great
> effort in the SOCI development, I decided to ask you first.
>
> If you know better person to contact, feel free to redirect me.
> Our team found a very specific bug at the Boost::Geometry library.
> Generally speaking on subtraction of two negative integer coordinates,
> those are at the minimum limits we have problem.
>
> Tracing into boost.geometry core we have found that in the file
> sectionalize.hpp integer overflow happens in the following expression in
> line 118:
>
> coordinate_type const diff = geometry::get<1, Dimension>(seg) -
> geometry::get<0, Dimension>(seg);
>
> Here is a file in enclosure, which replicates that bug.
> Or maybe it could be feature which we don`t know about =)
>
> Stepanov Sergey
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