MessageBox etc. in a constructor, would you do that?
what do you think, is showing a message box in a constructor of some class a bad practice? (or any other interaction with the user while initializing an object)
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Archive for January 2010
Effect of a ‘double to float’ overflow ?
I’m converting some code that someone else wrote. One of the header files contains this inline function:-
Code:
static inline float minus_infinity() { return -HUGE_VAL; }
In VC++ HUGE_VAL isn’t a float; it’s a double, so will this function actually return the correct value? I read somewhere (admittedly for C#) that overflowing a float causes it to return [...]