Re: [boost] Config patch to fix bug #802 --- BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS and /Za on MSVC

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-29 04:30:53

Anthony Williams wrote:
> There's more uses of BOOST_HAS_THREADS, but looking at them
> (including those in the regex headers), it seems to me that
> BOOST_HAS_THREADS really ought to be defined for a multi-threaded
> build, even if /Za is specified, otherwise the code won't be
> thread-safe.
>
> Code that depends on <windows.h> will break if /Za is specified, but
> that's a separate issue to BOOST_DISABLE_THREADS. I'm not suggesting
> we should be able to *build* boost with /Za, just use it.
>
>> I would prefer not to make this change to Boost.Config for 1.35, but
>> we should try to find a decent way of handling this.
>
> I was thinking that we didn't fix this in 1.34, so we ought to try
> and fix it in
> 1.35.

Well, how about you run the full regressions tests with /Za both with and 
without the config changes and see what happens?

Regards, John.