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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: C++0x and Threads - a poor relation to Ada's tasking model?
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:43:52 -0400
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REH <spamjunk@stny.rr.com> writes:

>...A couple of years ago, a wrote a class template that
> would do range/overflow checking. That, of course, is trivial. The
> neat thing about it is that it used template specialization to remove
> unnecessary checks at compile-time (e.g., the compiler could determine
> that the arithmetic operation could not overflow). It would "track" a
> variable's max. possible bounds as it was manipulated, and strip the
> unnecessary checks from expressions (again, all at compile-time). I
> published an article on it in Dr. Dobb's.

Intereesting.  Is that available on-line somewhere?

- Bob