Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski wrote:
...
> 
>> This is an unresolved issue in the C++ standard!
>> See http://cplusplus.github.com/LWG/lwg-unresolved.html#1169
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you Roger.
>> 
> 
> I'll admit I am not very well versed in the C++ standard lingo, but,
> does the link imply that the gcc behavior is incorrect?  It says: "On
> the other hand, the result of num_get conversion of such out-of-range
> floating-point values results in the most positive/negative
> representable value." ... "highest representable (which is, usually,
> the infinity)".  So does this imply that MSVC is standard-conforming
> and gcc is wrong?  This is hard to believe.      
> 

Sorry, the link I posted is a bit hard to understand!

Basically the current C++ standard is unclear and differs from C's handling
of overflow.
Vendors have also implemented it in different ways.

The item is still 'Open' -- I'm also not personally convinced the proposed
resolution entirely solves the issues.

Roger.


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