Re: [boost] Draft dimensions and units library uploaded

2003-03-04 Thread Stephen Nutt
Eric, Just took a quick look and the part that caught my eye was the numeric promotion code in numeric_concept.hpp as I just wrote some myself. Attached is my version, that I believe fully supports the builtin types. To allow other types (std::complex for example) I've allowed types to have a pr

Re: [boost] Is there any Interest in a Fixed Point Library?

2003-03-01 Thread Stephen Nutt
7;ll try and do some more cleanup tomorrow or early in the week. Stephen - Original Message - From: "Kevin Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Boost mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [boost] Is there any I

Re: [boost] Is there any Interest in a Fixed Point Library?

2003-03-01 Thread Stephen Nutt
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Boost mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [boost] Is there any Interest in a Fixed Point Library? > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Stephen

Re: [boost] Is there any Interest in a Fixed Point Library?

2003-02-28 Thread Stephen Nutt
Found it. A long read, but interesting. http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n972.pdf. To give credit where it is due, Bill Seymour sent me the URL back in August of last year. (Guess is was only 6 months ago I was doing this.) - Original Message - From: "Stephen

Re: [boost] Is there any Interest in a Fixed Point Library?

2003-02-28 Thread Stephen Nutt
Kevin, I started on this must be close to a year ago, and I got wrapped up with other stuff and never got back to it. A couple of interesting design ideas. Someone (sorry I forget who) pointed me towards a great pdf file describing a fixed point arithmetic enhancement for embedded compilers. It