6 Nov
2013
6 Nov
'13
5:04 p.m.
I'm not a user of Boost.Multiprecision, but maybe namespaces would do a better job in distinguishing the types? Injecting various tags into the type names feels like C-style.
Or maybe a trait to construct the necessary type:
template< unsigned int Bits > struct floating_point { typedef ... hardware_type; // optional typedef ... emulated_type; typedef ... type; // hw, if available, emulated otherwise };
typedef floating_point< 32 >::type my_float32_t;
Just some thoughts...
Lets not over complicate these :-) Actually I'm pretty sure these typedefs will be hardly ever used, but they're useful for exposition. John.