Re: Problem with scaled durations

[Trevor Daniels]

David Kastrup wrote Friday, January 04, 2013 8:21 AM

> Oscar Dub <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> From a user perspective, I thought it might be nice for the compiler
>> to send out some kind of error or warning message. Currently there's
>> no sign of anything wrong except the final output. Is this valid
>> enough an issue to be worth a quick bug report?
> 
> Overflow in C++ Rational arithmetic would take effort to reliably and
> would complicate the code base considerably.  At some point of time, the
> Rational class will likely get replaced with Scheme rationals (which
> have "arbitrary precision") and the problem will go away.

Until then we ought to document this as a "Known issue" in NR 1.2.1
under Scaling durations.

Copying to Bug list so bug squad can raise a Doc issue if they agree.

Trevor