Re: [boost] Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Compile error with boost::tokenizer and Forte 6U2

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-18 16:11:41

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Heintzelman" <georgeh_at_[hidden]>
>
> (moved to boost developers list)
>
> [snip most of the changes for SunPro CC]
>
> > Also ifdef BOOST_STATIC_ASSERTs on is_input_or_output_iter and
> > forward_iter_with_real_reference (~lines 616-630).
>
> Whoa Nelly. I also found most of the changes you suggested, but I
> looked into these assert failures compiling on SunPro 5.3 -- and I
> found that they really were indicating that the compiler was doing
> something wrong with the typedefs inside the constructed iterator.
> Ignoring the problem by #ifdefing these out I think may cause problems
> with the iterator adaptors in some contexts,

How? Those asserts don't have any functionality other than to cause compile
errors.