Re: [boost] GCC, stringstreams, and boost/config.hpp

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-28 03:54:13

You might also search around to see if the library revision identifies
itself separately from the core compiler. One approach might start with
taking the diffs between the 2.95.2/3 lib sources and searching for
"define".

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rainer Deyke" <root_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] GCC, stringstreams, and boost/config.hpp

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ross Smith" <ross.s_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 8:37 PM
> Subject: [boost] GCC, stringstreams, and boost/config.hpp
>
>
> > Up until recently, GCC had no <sstream> header in its normal
> > configuration (i.e. unless you added a 3rd-party library). The current
> > boost/config.hpp contains (edited to show only the relevant bits):
>
> <snip>
>
> > I can see three possible courses, none of which are really satisfactory:
> >
> > (1) The status quo. Leave BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM wrongly defined for GCC
> > 2.95.3, and rely on the impending release of GCC 3.0 to make the problem
> > go away. It won't do so quickly -- a lot of current GCC 2.95.3 users are
> > going to wait for other people to find the bugs first.
>
> Of your three choices, this seems the most reasonable.  I would extend
this
> by allowing the user-defined macro 'BOOST_GCC_2_95_WITH_SSTREAM' to
prevent
> the definition of 'BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM'.  If the compiler doesn't fully
> identify itself, the burden must be shifted to the user.
>
>
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