Re: [boost] Apple GCC conditional in boost.python ??

From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-21 12:47:14

At 9:46 PM -0800 2/20/05, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
>--- Marshall Clow <marshall_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>  > In boost/libs/python/src/converter/registry.cpp, I found:
>  >
>  > >#if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__MACH__) && defined(__GNUC__) \
>  > >  && __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ <= 4 && !defined(__APPLE_CC__)
>  > ># define BOOST_PYTHON_CONVERTER_REGISTRY_APPLE_MACH_WORKAROUND
>  > >#endif
>  >
>  > but I think that the conditionals are incorrect.
>
>I am sure they are not pretty but they certainly did the job.
>
>>  So, I think that that whole #if expression always evaluates to "false".
>
>Nope. Install the old gcc 3.3 from gcc.gnu.org to verify.
>
>See also:
>
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14232
>
>Cheers,
>         Ralf

Gotcha. A gcc for the Mac that wasn't from Apple.
That's the case that I didn't think of.

Sorry about that.

>How did you stumble over my hack? Does it cause any problems?

There's a bad #if __APPLE__ in limits.hpp, (which is causing the 
regressions to fail) so I was looking for other apple-specific code. 
It doesn't cause any problems, but I didn't think it did anything. It 
seems I was wrong.
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