fix parsing "-inf" in config variables

The default for export-silence-threshold is -INFINITY, written
as "-inf" (by cfgtool) into system_config. Yet parsing the config using
a std::stringstream results in "0" (due to bugs in various libc++).

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libs/pbd/configuration_variable.cc b/libs/pbd/configuration_variable.cc
index 578114e92a..cde1d15bf1 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/configuration_variable.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/configuration_variable.cc
@@ -107,3 +107,10 @@ ConfigVariableBase::miss ()
 	// is set but to the same value as it already has
 }
 
+/* Specialisation of ConfigVariable to deal with float (-inf etc)
+ * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23374095/should-a-stringstream-parse-infinity-as-an-infinite-value
+ */
+template<> void
+ConfigVariable<float>::set_from_string (std::string const & s) {
+	value = std::strtof (s.c_str(), NULL);
+}