[boost] MSVC & the B&N trick

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 1999-12-23 19:36:23

Dave Abrahams writes:
 > Alan writes:
 > > I wish I knew so that I could avoid doing it!  It is one of those things
 > > where a technique seems to work until incorporated into a production app
 > > and then the compiler goes into a sulk.  Cutting the pre-processed code
 > > down just leaves me more confused.
 > 
 > I urge you to take another crack at it, since the operators.hpp stuff really
 > depends on it. I just went through the same process with gcc and
 > re-discovered [:(] that friend operator functions generated by templates
 > within a namespace (!) screw everything up for gcc. That's why operators.hpp
 > generates these functions at global scope when used with gcc.

Doh... there is a similar bug in MSVC that was giving me fits last
night with some of the graph code. I'll have to go back and take a
closer look at it.

Cheers,

Jeremy