AMDG Chad Nelson wrote:
Hi! I'm a long-time user (and admirer) of the Boost libraries, and I've just uploaded a new one to the Boost Vault for consideration: the Extended Integer (XInt) library, a unlimited-precision integer library that I've been working on for the last few months. I'd like to request a preliminary review of it, please.
I know I was supposed to "determine interest" first, but I've seen posts going back at least five years, expressing a desire for such a library, so I didn't think that was really necessary in this case. :-)
It's not perfect. The code is complete, as is the documentation text. But it doesn't yet support auto-linking or Windows DLLs, I'm not sure how the test suite would fit into the Boost test system, and I'm not sure I've got the Jamfile correct. But it should be sufficient for experimental use and review, and I'm eager to hear what you guys think of it.
I saw a couple of issues: * The operators should be defined in namespace xint, so they will be found by ADL. * If you provide random functions, it should be as a specialization of boost::uniform_int. Ideally, however, boost::uniform_int would just work. random.cpp:80 std::transform(mString.begin(), mString.end(), mString.begin(), zero); this could be std::fill(mString.begin(), mString.end(), '\0'); In Christ, Steven Watanabe