Subject: Re: [boost] SafeInt code proposal
From: Raindog (raindog_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-21 20:31:50


Omer Katz wrote:
>
> There is indeed an overflow flag as mentioned, but the library should
> be platform independent, that's why it doesn't use it, though it will
> be probably faster.

You can write platform specializations so that on those platforms that
do support it, they are not penalized.