Re: [boost] cast.hpp on GCC 2.95.2

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-27 19:49:12

At 12:28 AM 11/28/2000 +0100, Jens Maurer wrote:

 >Dave Abrahams wrote:
 >> I notice that http://www.boost.org/libs/compiler_status.htm shows
 >> that cast_test.cpp fails under GCC. Does anyone (e.g. Jens) know if
 >> the failure mode is INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR?
 >
 >Yes, it is.
 >
 >>  Does anyone have a
 >> proposed fix?
 >
 >Yes: define the function out-of-line instead of in-line.
 >Patch attached (may not work on MSVC).

Dave, will you update the CVS and verify it works under MSVC?

 >> If we have accepted or are going to accept lexical_cast<>, is it part
 >> of the casts library?
 >
 >lexical_cast<> gets its own header, because it needs iostreams, which
 >is rather heavyweight.

Although lexical_cast<> has its own header, Kevlin and I decided to treat 
both lexical_cast.hpp and cast.hpp as a single boost cast library.  I'm 
supposed to write a covering docs page which links to the detailed docs for 
the two headers.  I'm planning to work on that tomorrow.  I post it all in 
the vault as soon as ready.

The review starts Monday, December 4th, a week from today.

--Beman