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 16:42:10

----- Original Message -----
From: "George A. Heintzelman" <georgeh_at_[hidden]>

> > How? Those asserts don't have any functionality other than to cause
compile
> > errors.
>
> The reason for the asserts firing is that the Sun CC Compiler is
> setting up the typedefs for value_type, pointer, reference, and
> iterator_category incorrectly. So any functionality which depends on
> those typedefs may not work right. #ifdefing will let you compile other
> things which don't depend on those typedefs, but won't solve the
> fundamental problem.

Oh, sure. You said it might /cause/ problems though.