Re: [boost] [config] [regression] Regression test failures due to compiler bugs -- your advice needed

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] [regression] Regression test failures due to compiler bugs -- your advice needed
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-21 10:41:30

Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:
> A number of tests of Boost.Optional fail. (see here:
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/optional.html)
> These are the failures in optional<T&> (optional references), because 
> quite a lot of compilers implement reference binding in a 
> non-standard-conforming manner. (For details of these bugs see here:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/optional/doc/html/boost_optional/dependencies_and_portability/optional_reference_binding.html
> ).

On the doc page, you state that these bugs are present in all MSVC versions, 
but on the tests page, I only see one failure, with msvc-10.0, everything 
else is green (or, in some cases, missing.)