Re: [boost] Survey of Libraries and Visual C++

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-22 08:49:11

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Klein" <bill_at_[hidden]>

> Just a quick note: the debug mode of STLport is incompatible with
> some of boost (or at least with the regex library). I mentioned
> this to John Maddock a bit back and, if I remember correctly, we
> were able to determine the problem but were unsure which of STLport
> or regex was in the wrong (STLport was asserting that something was
> illegal where it might possibly have been legal)... Maybe this has
> changed...

I use STLport's debug mode with regex and have not had a problem. The
STLport tests are very carefully written. If an assertion fires the bug is
almost certainly in the client code.

-Dave