On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Daniel Krügler <daniel.krueg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/10/2 Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr>: >> Here I am talking of a library issue: the wording that says that there are >> sufficient overloads such that integer types call the double version of math >> functions. It is fairly obvious that it doesn't apply to abs(long) for >> instance which has an explicit overload. For short or unsigned, I still read >> it as saying that it converts to double... > > This really looks like a problem of the Standard Library specification > to me and > a corresponding issue should be submitted. In fact the wording can be > interpreted > that mixing <cstdlib> with <cmath> would imply two different versions of > std::abs(int) because of different required return types. I will > prepare a corresponding > submission to the LWG.
This was already an issue I reported to LWG when C++98 came out. Now that you hold wrtite access to the issue document, you can make sure it won't slip through the crack this time :-p -- Gaby
