Opened 12 years ago

#4255 new Bugs

Documentation: No overflow-checking in accumulators, no precision guarantees

Reported by: Tim Odenthal Owned by: Eric Niebler
Milestone: Boost 1.43.0 Component: accumulator
Version: Boost 1.44.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: Cc: eric@…

Description

As discussed herehttp://old.nabble.com/-accumulators--Is-there-a-reset-function-yet--td28635232.html, I suggest changing the documentation to warn users of possible overflow/loss of precision issues:

Maybe in the section "The Accumulators Framework" one could add the sentence

To ensure maximum performance, the predefined accumulators in the library do not check for possible overflows or loss of precision by adding numbers of very different exponents.

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