用于安全整数转换的 C++ 模板

I am trying to write a C++ template function that will throw a runtime exception on integer overflow in casts between different integral types, with different widths, and possible signed/unsigned mismatch. For these purposes I'm not concerned with casting from floating-point types to integral types, nor other object-to-object conversions. I'd like to do this without having to write lots of special case code. This is what I currently have:

template< typename T, typename R > void safe_cast( const T& source, R& result )
{
    // get the maximum safe value of type R
    R rMax = (R) ~0;
    if ( rMax < 0 ) // R is a signed type
    {
        // assume that we're on an 8-bit twos-compliment machine
        rMax = ~( 0x80 << ( ( sizeof( R ) - 1 ) * 8 ) );
    }

    if ( ( source & rMax  ) != source )
    {
        throw new IntegerOverflowException( source );
    }

    result = static_cast<R>( source );
}

这是否正确且有效?

由于各种原因 stl 不可用，所以我不能使用 std::numeric_limits，而 Boost 中的任何东西都是正确的.