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<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
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<section id="safe_numerics.notes">
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<title>Background</title>
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<para>This library started out as a re-implementation of the facilities
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provided by <ulink url="http://safeint.codeplex.com">David LeBlanc's SafeInt
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Library</ulink>. I found this library to be well done in every way. My main
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usage was to run unit tests for my embedded systems projects on my PC.
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Still, I had a few issues.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>It was a lot of code in one header - 6400 lines. Very unwieldy to
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understand, modify and maintain.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>I couldn't find separate documentation other than that in the
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header file.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>It didn't use <ulink url="http://www.boost.org">Boost</ulink>
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conventions for naming.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>It required porting to different compilers.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>It had a very long license associated with it.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>I could find no test suite for the library.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>This version addresses these issues. It exploits many facilities of
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C++14 and the <ulink url="http://www.boost.org">Boost libraries</ulink> to
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reduce the number of lines of source code to approximately 4700.</para>
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</section>
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