// Copyright John Maddock 2007. // Copyright Paul A. Bristow 2010 // Use, modification and distribution are subject to the // Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file // LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) // Note that this file contains quickbook mark-up as well as code // and comments, don't change any of the special comment mark-ups! #include using std::cout; using std::endl; #include // for ::errno //[policy_eg_4 /*` Suppose we want `C::foo()` to behave in a C-compatible way and set `::errno` on error rather than throwing any exceptions. We'll begin by including the needed header for our function: */ #include //using boost::math::tgamma; // Not needed because using C::tgamma. /*` Open up the "C" namespace that we'll use for our functions, and define the policy type we want: in this case a C-style one that sets ::errno and returns a standard value, rather than throwing exceptions. Any policies we don't specify here will inherit the defaults. */ namespace C { // To hold our C-style policy. //using namespace boost::math::policies; or explicitly: using boost::math::policies::policy; using boost::math::policies::domain_error; using boost::math::policies::pole_error; using boost::math::policies::overflow_error; using boost::math::policies::evaluation_error; using boost::math::policies::errno_on_error; typedef policy< domain_error, pole_error, overflow_error, evaluation_error > c_policy; /*` All we need do now is invoke the BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_SPECIAL_FUNCTIONS macro passing our policy type c_policy as the single argument: */ BOOST_MATH_DECLARE_SPECIAL_FUNCTIONS(c_policy) } // close namespace C /*` We now have a set of forwarding functions defined in namespace C that all look something like this: `` template inline typename boost::math::tools::promote_args::type tgamma(RT z) { return boost::math::tgamma(z, c_policy()); } `` So that when we call `C::tgamma(z)`, we really end up calling `boost::math::tgamma(z, C::c_policy())`: */ int main() { errno = 0; cout << "Result of tgamma(30000) is: " << C::tgamma(30000) << endl; // Note using C::tgamma cout << "errno = " << errno << endl; // errno = 34 cout << "Result of tgamma(-10) is: " << C::tgamma(-10) << endl; cout << "errno = " << errno << endl; // errno = 33, overwriting previous value of 34. } /*` Which outputs: [pre Result of C::tgamma(30000) is: 1.#INF errno = 34 Result of C::tgamma(-10) is: 1.#QNAN errno = 33 ] This mechanism is particularly useful when we want to define a project-wide policy, and don't want to modify the Boost source, or to set project wide build macros (possibly fragile and easy to forget). */ //] //[/policy_eg_4]