Re: [boost] [inspect] More changes to Inspection Report

Subject: Re: [boost] [inspect] More changes to Inspection Report
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-21 09:21:27

On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On
> Behalf Of
>> Beman Dawes
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:13 PM
>> To: Boost Developers List
>> Subject: [boost] [inspect] More changes to Inspection Report
>> 
>> More changes to the Inspection Report:
> 
>> * Apple macros clashes now show the specific name causing the problem.
> 
> It is clearly a nuisance for all Boost authors to avoid using the lowercase name
> 'check' - and even more to have to change code retrospectively. 
> 
I agree.

> (It wouldn't be quite so bad of they had followed the UPPERCASE for MACROS
> convention, or if macros were namespaced).
> 

There is a way to deal with this which doesn't require any code changes.
The macros in question are defined in a file "/usr/include/AssertMacros.h", which is guarded by an

#ifndef __ASSERTMACROS__
#define __ASSERTMACROS__
......
#endif

construct. If we were to define __ASSERTMACROS__ in the darwin.jam file, then these macros would never be defined.

However, this could lead to other problems down the road.

-- Marshall