14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
6:30 p.m.
Paul A Bristow wrote:
So on balance, I think following the rules used in Math Toolkit sounds the best compromise.
"These rules are chosen to be compatible with the behaviour of ISO/IEC 9899:1999 Programming languages - C and with the Draft Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions, 2005-06-24, section 5.2.1, paragraph 5.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1836.pdf "
Right the idea is to be compatible with what C99 and C++0x do when an integer argument is passed to a math function. The other issue is that if: pow<-3>(2) returned an integer, then presumably it can only return 0, which isn't exactly right :-) John.