On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 01:33PM, Terry Lambert <tlambert2_at_mindspring.com> wrote: >David Leimbach wrote: >> This is a good policy in general, however, one could easily argue that >> what is trying to be determined with signedness and such being >> less-than-compared >> to 0 isn't really a big deal and possibly the only way to implement this >> numeric_limits<T>::digits thing without any type introspection which >> C++ currently >> lacks. >> >> The following would work for example in a template function: > >[ ... ] > True... but I don't think I was talking about a one-shot disabling of the message. I was thinking more about how a compliant C++ compiler can determine the signedness of a datatype without type introspection or type metadata available at compile time. [which seems to be what numeric_limits<T> is all about doesn't it?] Dave >Gcc needs a #pragma to disable specific warnings as a one-shot. > >This was discussed in detail on the GCC mailing list. > >-- Terry > >Received on Mon Jul 14 2003 - 11:33:31 UTC
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