Re: auto_array_ptr

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-04-10 13:08:01

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <abrahams_at_m...> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Powell" <Gary.Powell_at_s...>
> 
> >   CUJ's article on Compilers claims that MSVC 7.0 will have 
partial
> > specialization WooHoo!
> 
> Are you sure this isn't some sort of misinformation? MS reps have
> consistently said the opposite!

Let's hope and pray!

> Any chance they're fixing the wondrous linker symbol length 
limitation?

Linker symbol length?  Do you mean error 4786 "'identifier' : 
identifier was truncated to 'number' characters in the debug 
information"?  This isn't a linker problem and will be a hard nut for 
MS to crack, though I agree that they should.  The problem is in the 
debug symbol information data layout.  Fixing the compiler isn't 
enough, they'd have to fix all the available Windows debuggers as 
well.  Not an impossible task, but I bet it's not fixed with VC7.

Bill Kempf