[boost] Re: help with iterator_value and BOOST_BROKEN_COMPILER_TYPE_TRAITS_SPECIALIZATION

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-23 10:16:22

"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The boost.iterator docs says
>
> On compilers that don't support partial specialization, such as Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or 7.0, you may need to manually invoke
> BOOST_BROKEN_COMPILER_TYPE_TRAITS_SPECIALIZATION on the value_type of pointers that are passed to these metafunctions.
> Can anyone show how this must be used. I have no idea on how to apply this workaround.

See the bottom of

http://www.boost.org/libs/type_traits/index.html#transformations

It's cross-linked in the Boost iterator docs, in fact.  What are we missing?

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