From: Date: December 19 2005 8:36pm
Subject: Re: packarray - version 0.2
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:25:30AM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> Chris Frey wrote:
> >
> >http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/browse_thread/thread/e7bf096832526f8e/5714701b02a2a3cc?hl=en#5714701b02a2a3cc
> 
> I just took a look at that, and saw that you seem to have worked out the 
> technical problems.  Are we going to see a v0.3 soon, or were you 
> waiting on OS X tests with v0.2 from me first?

I've been sidetracked by flu.  The main thing I still don't like about v0.2
is that it uses a reinterpret_cast<> in an inline template function to
provide the application access to double.  I fear that could be optimized
away someday, so am pondering putting that string-to-double casting in
a .cpp file, which can be compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing in the library
for safety.

Also, James Kanze in the newsgroup recommended using frexp() and ldexp()
to do the double conversions portably, which would be nice in v0.3, but
I haven't done that yet.  That's the implementation that should really be
tested on OS X when it's done.

Thanks,
- Chris