Re: [boost] Re: Config questions for GCC 3.1

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-01 14:22:13

At 01:53 PM 7/1/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >From: "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]>
 >
 >> I believe that BOOST_MSVC6_MEMBER_TEMPLATES is intended
 >> to mean "This compiler at least has MSVC6 member templates",
 >> whereas, I would expect
 >>
 >> BOOST_NO_MSVC6_MEMBER_TEMPLATES
 >>
 >> to mean the opposite.
 >
 >That corresponds to my understanding.
 >
 >> Perhaps it is confusing because most of the other
 >> macros signify the absence of a feature.
 >
 >Perhaps, but who is confused here?

I was, for one.

The policy of using macros to identify the absence rather than presence of 
standard features seems like a good one.

An any event, if the configuration isn't at fault, why is 
numeric_traits_test failing?  Is there a bug?  In Boost code, or in GCC 
3.1?

--Beman