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Enforce Correct Integer Arithmetic using the C++ Safe Numerics Library
The Boost Safe Numerics library, created by Robert Ramey aims to enforce correct mathematical operations with the C++ language. Why are safer numeric operations needed? C++ inherited the behavior of the integral types (int, unsigned, long, etc.) from the C language, where they were designed to map closely to the underlying processor hardware. The types …