clamp_cast

A narrowing cast that does the right thing. clamp_cast will saturate output values at min or max if the input value would overflow / underflow.

Examples

double ld = -42.0;
unsigned char uc = clamp_cast<unsigned char>(ld);
// uc == 0

float f = 500000.f;
char c = clamp_cast<char>(f);
// c == 127

Build

clamp_cast is a single header with no dependencies other than the stl.

The unit tests depend on gtest and boost multiprecision. They are not built by default. Use conan to install the dependencies when running the test suite.

Windows

mkdir build && cd build
..\conan.bat
cmake .. -A x64 -DBUILD_TESTING=On && cmake --build . --config debug
bin\clamp_cast_tests.exe

// Optionally
cmake --build . --target install

Unixes

mkdir build && cd build
..\conan.sh
cmake .. -DBUILD_TESTING=On && cmake --build . --config debug
bin\clamp_cast_tests.exe

// Optionally
cmake --build . --target install