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<a name="safe_numerics.pending_issues"></a>Pending Issues</h2></div></div></div>
<p>The library is under development. There are a number of issues still
pending.</p>
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<li class="listitem"><p>The library is currently limited to integers.</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>Conversions to safe integer types from floating point types is
not explicitly addressed.</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>Note that standard library stream conversion functions such as
<code class="computeroutput">strtoi</code> etc. DO check for valid input and throw the
exception <code class="computeroutput">std::out_of_range</code> if the string cannot be
converted to the specified integer type. In other words,
<code class="computeroutput">strtoi</code> already contains some of the functionality that
<code class="computeroutput">safe&lt;int&gt;</code> provides.</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>Although care has been taken to make the library portable, it's
likely that at least some parts of the implementation - particularly
<code class="computeroutput">checked</code> arithmetic - depend upon two's complement
representation of integers. Hence the library is probably not
currently portable to all other possible C++ architectures.</p></li>
<li class="listitem"><p>Currently the library permits a safe&lt;int&gt; value to be
uninitialized. This supports the goal of "drop-in" replacement of
C++/C built-in types with safe counter parts. On the other hand, this
breaks the "always valid" guarantee.</p></li>
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