Hello, I wanted to do some testing of XInt for the review, so I thought I could try it with a gaussian elimination code that I'm working on. I only had a quick glance at the library; the documentation seems very clear and my code compiled fine with Boost.XInt at the first attempt, just by changing one typedef. I'd like to join Christofer Jefferson in his praise of the work done for making XInt easy to use. However, running it seemed to take forever. After a while I traced this down to the following bug: * a very simple I/O program that works with std integral types: $ cat a.cpp #include <iostream> int main(void) { int i; long x; while (not std::cin.eof()) { std::cin >> i >> x; std::cout << "Read i:" << i << ", x:" << x << std::endl; if (0 == i and 0 == x) break; }; return 0; } $ c++ a.cpp -I ~/sw/include/ $ ./a.out 1 2 Read i:1, x:2 0 0 Read i:0, x:0 * the same simple program fails and goes in a busy-loop cycle with XInt: $ cat a.cpp #include <iostream> #include int main(void) { int i; boost::xint::integer x; while (not std::cin.eof()) { std::cin >> i >> x; std::cout << "Read i:" << i << ", x:" << x << std::endl; if (0 == i and 0 == x) break; }; return 0; } $ c++ a.cpp -I ~/sw/include/ $ ./a.out 1 2 Read i:1, x:0 Read i:1, x:0 Read i:1, x:0 <repeats ad libitum in a busy loop> For the record, I've tried gcc 4.4.3 on Ubuntu 10.04, with Boost 1.45.0 plus XInt (from the .zip file). Unofrtunately, this prevented all my computational jobs from getting to do any number crunching (they have been stalled into the read cycle for hours before I noticed). I would like to see XInt accepted based on its simplicity of use, but in the event I really did not test anything in the library except compilation. Best regards, Riccardo