[boost] Another operators.hpp bug?

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-06-14 18:28:04

This is part of what I was complaining about earlier...  my guess is
that someone was trying to avoid the std::iterator problem on g++ by
just removing the helpers instead of doing a workaround.

Dave Abrahams writes:
 > The iterator helper definitions look like this. Am I completely nuts
 > and/or is this completely wacked? It looks like it is saying we only
 > define iterator helpers if your compiler is GCC >= 2.96 or your
 > library is SGI STL. What exactly is the intention here, and how
 > do we fulfill it?
 > 
 > -Dave
 > 
 > //  Iterator helper classes (contributed by Jeremy Siek ) ------------
 > --------//
 > 
 > #if __GNUC__ > 2 || __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ > 95 || defined 
 > (__SGI_STL)
 >   ...
 >   struct forward_iterator_helper
 >   ...
 >   struct bidirectional_iterator_helper
 >   ...
 > #ifndef BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
 >   ...
 >   struct random_access_iterator_helper
 >   ...
 > #else
 >   ...
 >   struct random_access_iterator_helper
 >   ...
 > #endif // BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
 > #endif // Disabled when working with broken default GCC library
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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