Re: [glob2-devel] Nicowar desync

[Bradley Arsenault]

On 1/20/06, Nuage <address@hidden> wrote:
> > One of Boosts major concerns is about portability, so they work fine
> > on MacOSX, and from what I hear, osx has a binary of boost with it as
> > well, so it should provide no problem. I'm mainly targetting nct, who
> > tries to keep an eye on dependancies. As well, a full fixed width
> > integer class is not simple, especially when it comes to devision and
> > multiplication, where as multipling to decimals shrinks the result,
> > and deviding by a decimal increases the result, quite the opposite of
> > what the default integers do, which is why I so desperately want to be
> > allowed to use Boost, which provides a full rational number library
> > that would solve my problems. There are also a variety of otheer boost
> > libraries which would come in very handy, and adding a dependancy for
> > a single Boost library is dumb as boost generally comes (on all posix
> > systems and their windows binaries) as one big collection rather than
> > individual libraries.
>
> Could you check if boost.rational use any floating point operations ? We need 
> to
> know this before we could use it, thx.
>
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Fortenetly, boost.rational is basically a fraction, one that is
templatized on an underlying integer type, so you can feed it unsigned
int, signed long, etc depending on your needs, but it does no floating
math at all, Which is why i'm routing for it so much.