AMDG Ryan McConnehey wrote:
In writing some unit tests to convert strings to floats I've come across a puzzling situation. I was trying to test that a std::bad_cast was thrown if a number was too large to fit into a float. The error wasn't thrown but the float was given 1.#INF000. The work around I used was to cast to a double and then do a numeric_cast on the result. This provided an exception for values larger than could fit in a float. Lexical_cast on a double though works as I would have expected. If a value is too large to fit into a double then a std::bad_cast is called.
float test = boost::lexical_cast<float>("3.4e050"); //test will have the value of 1.#INF000 float test = boost::numeric_cast<float>( boost::lexical_cast<double>("3.4e50"); //std::bad_cast is thrown double test = boost::lexical_cast<double>("3.4e350"); //std::bad_cast is thrown
Is the lexical_cast for float behaving correctly?
The problem is in the standard library. (Tested with msvc 9.0 express--gcc 4.3.0 behaves sensibly). #include <iostream> #include <sstream> int main() { { std::istringstream ss("3.4e050"); float val; ss >> val; std::cout << std::boolalpha << "ss: " << static_cast<bool>(ss) << ", val: " << val << std::endl; } { std::istringstream ss("3.4e350"); double val; ss >> val; std::cout << std::boolalpha << "ss: " << static_cast<bool>(ss) << ", val: " << val << std::endl; } } ss: true, val: 1.#INF ss: false, val: -9.25596e+061 In Christ, Steven Watanabe