Re: Using ggcl with Sun CC-6.0 (Forte)

From: mishkin_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-02-01 20:09:28

I'm new to this group and have scanned the archives and the net in 
general for more info but haven't come up with anything, so...

I'm wondering whether anyone has made any additional progress with 
the new Sun compiler.  I'm considering using ggcl but I need it to 
work on Solaris, preferably with the Sun compiler.  I took a witless 
slash-and-burn approach trying to get the the "graph.cpp" example to 
build, -D'ing:

- BOOST_NO_STD_ITERATOR_TRAITS
- BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
- BOOST_NO_HASH
- BOOST_NO_SLIST

I came up with this list by more or less by looking at compilation 
errors and adding -D's that looked promising.  (Like I said, witless.)

The compiler I'm running is:

    CC: Sun WorkShop 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 2000/09/11

If people want to offer opinions about the relative virtues of g++ 
vs. the Sun compiler, I'd be happy to hear them.

Thanks for any help.
--
Nat Mishkin
Rational Software
mishkin_at_[hidden]
--- In boost_at_y..., Jeremy Siek <jsiek_at_l...> wrote:
> 
> I made a quick attempt a few weeks back...
> 
> Since Sun 6.0 supports partial specialization (mostly) I was trying 
to
> compile the graph library (and most of the rest of boost) without 
defining
> the BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION macro. This caused 
*lots* of
> problems, especially in the type_traits and call_traits headers 
because
> there are still many corners of the language used in those headers 
that is
> not supported by CC-6.0.
> 
> I have not tried compiling the graph library with the
> BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION macro defined... I
> expect that we will have more luck with this approach.
> 
> One other gotcha... in the <iterator> header for CC-6.0, 
> iterator_traits is still #ifdef'd out. Therefore we will either
> A) need to supply our own version iterator_traits (which is not
> a problem since the compiler does support partial spec.)
> or B) define the macro BOOST_NO_STD_ITERATOR_TRAITS.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:
> rajesh> Hi,
> rajesh> 
> rajesh> Has anyone got ggcl working with Sun CC-6.0 (Forte). It is 
supposed to
> rajesh> be way better than CC-5.0.