RE: [Vxl-maintainers] vnl_numeric_limits, NaN, and Borland C++

[Ian S. <ian...@st...>]

I have now deprecated and removed all uses of vnl_numeric_limits from VXL.
It should be deleted sometime after release VXL-1.1
Ian.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fitzgibbon [mailto:aw...@ro...]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 5:25 PM
> To: 'Amitha Perera'; Ian Scott
> Cc: 'Vxl-maintainers (E-mail)'
> Subject: RE: [Vxl-maintainers] vnl_numeric_limits, NaN, and
> Borland C++
>
>
>
> thirded.  I can attest that historically vnl_numeric_limits
> existed before vcl.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vxl...@li...
> > [mailto:vxl...@li...] On
> > Behalf Of Amitha Perera
> > Sent: 24 October 2003 14:23
> > To: Ian Scott
> > Cc: Vxl-maintainers (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [Vxl-maintainers] vnl_numeric_limits, NaN, and
> > Borland C++
> >
> >
> > On Thu 23 Oct 2003, Ian Scott wrote:
> > > AFAIK vnl_numeric_limits was introduced because support for
> > > vcl_numeric_limits was poor amongst most compilers. Now
> > vcl_numeric_limits
> > > is well supported amongst most compilers, and vcl provides
> > a emulation for
> > > those that don't support it. Why do we need vnl_numeric_limits at
> > > all?
> >
> > I agree with this sentiment. And vcl is a much better place
> to fix any
> > bugs related to this, because we can take full advantage of the
> > particular compiler's idiosyncrasies.
> >
> > Amitha.
> >
> >
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