#include #include #include int main(int, const char *[]){ // problem: cannot recover from arithmetic errors std::cout << "example 8: "; std::cout << "cannot detect compile time arithmetic errors" << std::endl; std::cout << "Not using safe numerics" << std::endl; try{ const int x = 1; const int y = 0; // will emit warning at compile time // will leave an invalid result at runtime. std::cout << x / y; // will display "0"! std::cout << "error NOT detected!" << std::endl; } catch(const std::exception &){ std::cout << "error detected!" << std::endl; } // solution: replace int with safe std::cout << "Using safe numerics" << std::endl; try{ using namespace boost::safe_numerics; const safe x = 1; const safe y = 0; // constexpr const safe z = x / y; // note constexpr here! std::cout << x / y; // error would be detected at runtime std::cout << " error NOT detected!" << std::endl; } catch(const std::exception & e){ std::cout << "error detected:" << e.what() << std::endl; } return 0; }