Re: [Boost-users] program_options: accepting NaNs for doubles

Hi Rhys, I would think the workaround would be the one mentioned in the ticket you reference, use the trunk version of boost. Mike On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Rhys Ulerich wrote:

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program_options does not accept NaN or Inf as valid double input.

1) Does this count as a bug?

It seems yes as the root cause appears to be a (now fixed for 1.48) bug in lexical_cast (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5689). I have filed https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5776 against program_options with a milestone matching the lexical_cast bug.

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2) Can anyone suggest a workaround (shy of using string-based parameters and calling strtod myself)?