"Alisdair Meredith" <alisdair.meredith@uk.renaultf1.com> wrote in message news:d98vdr$oia$1@sea.gmane.org...
Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
All of the above should pass, since the algotrithm used:
x and y are close iff:
|x-y| / |x| < tol/100 and |x-y| / |y| < tol/100
Obviosly nothing could be close to zero and rest are failing also.
In that case I find the algorithm to be confusingly named, as in all these cases the test value is 'closer' to zero than the delta. I would not expect closeness to zero (or any other arbitrary number) to affect a general proximity test.
There is a new tool introduced in this release called BOOST_CHECK_SMALL to check that some value is small enough (close to zero). That one uses absolute (vs. relative) values comparisons. Gennadiy