> 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. _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
