Re: Parsing of maximum double parses INF

Olaf Peter <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:10:16 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.parsers.spirit.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 31.05.2018 um 15:13 schrieb Olaf Peter:
> Hi,
> 
> I came to the following test:
> 
> #include <boost/spirit/home/x3.hpp>
> #include <iostream>
> #include <limits>
> #include <string>
> 
> namespace x3 = boost::spirit::x3;
> 
> int main()
> {
>      std::string number{ 
> std::to_string(std::numeric_limits<double>::max()) };
> 
>      auto iter = number.begin();
>      auto const end = number.end();
>      double attr;
>      bool parse_ok = x3::parse(iter, end,
>                                x3::double_,
>                                attr);
> 
>      std::cout << number << "\n"
>                << std::boolalpha
>                << "parse_ok: "     << parse_ok
>                << ", full_match: " << (iter == end)
>                << ", attr: " << attr << "\n";
> }
> 
> 179769313486231570814527423731704356798070567525844996598917476803157260780028538760589558632766878171540458953514382464234321326889464182768467546703537516986049910576551282076245490090389328944075868508455133942304583236903222948165808559332123348274797826204144723168738177180919299881250404026184124858368.000000 
> 
> parse_ok: true, full_match: true, attr: inf
> 
> where parse_ok and full_match are true, but the attribute got INF. I'm 
> correct with my assumption, that a string of DOUBLE_MAX must give me the 
> value back, isn't it? Isn't the same true for the smallest value as of 
> std::numeric_limits<double>::min() ??

So, comparing is only usefull in the sence of 
numeric_limits<double>::digits10, but nevertheless INF should not be, 
isn't it?

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