1// Copyright (c) 2018 Robert Ramey
2//
3// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
4// accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
5// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
6
7#include <stdexcept>
8#include <iostream>
9
10#include <boost/safe_numerics/safe_integer.hpp>
11
12int main(int, const char *[]){
13 // problem: cannot recover from arithmetic errors
14 std::cout << "example 14: ";
15 std::cout << "cannot detect compile time arithmetic errors" << std::endl;
16 std::cout << "Not using safe numerics" << std::endl;
17
18 try{
19 const int x = 1;
20 const int y = 0;
21 // will emit warning at compile time
22 // will leave an invalid result at runtime.
23 std::cout << x / y; // will display "0"!
24 std::cout << "error NOT detected!" << std::endl;
25 }
26 catch(const std::exception &){
27 std::cout << "error detected!" << std::endl;
28 }
29 // solution: replace int with safe<int>
30 std::cout << "Using safe numerics" << std::endl;
31 try{
32 using namespace boost::safe_numerics;
33 const safe<int> x = 1;
34 const safe<int> y = 0;
35 // constexpr const safe<int> z = x / y; // note constexpr here!
36 std::cout << x / y; // error would be detected at runtime
37 std::cout << " error NOT detected!" << std::endl;
38 }
39 catch(const std::exception & e){
40 std::cout << "error detected:" << e.what() << std::endl;
41 }
42 return 0;
43}
44

source code of boost/libs/safe_numerics/example/example14.cpp