id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
4255	Documentation: No overflow-checking in accumulators, no precision guarantees	Tim Odenthal	Eric Niebler	"As discussed here[http://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.''

"	Bugs	new	Boost 1.43.0	accumulator	Boost 1.44.0	Problem			eric@…