Re: [boost] Problem with boost/array

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-20 17:51:21

At 05:25 PM 1/20/2001 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

 >boost/array adds an extra template parameter to std::reverse_iterator 
only
 >if BOOST_MSVC_STD_ITERATOR is defined, but it seems to me that any
 >implementation without partial specialization is going to require the 
extra
 >parameter for reverse_iterator<T*>.

Until two days ago, boost/array.hpp used 
!defined(BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION) to select the standard 
iterators, but that failed for the Intel compiler, which has partial 
specialization but uses the MSVC library.

 > In fact, the STLport 4.1 beta, when
 >compiled with MSVC includes the extra parameter. Maybe we need a new 
config
 >macro
 >
 >  BOOST_EXTENDED_REVERSE_ITERATOR
 >
 >or some such?

Do we really need another macro?  We could instead use:

   !defined(BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION)
   && !defined(BOOST_MSVC_STD_ITERATOR)

Let me try that before we add YAM (Yet Another Macro).

--Beman