Re: [boost] (no subject)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-12 15:56:22

At 02:04 PM 8/12/2002, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

 >> One oddity that has affected several libraries, but not threads, is 
that
 >> Intel and VC++ 7.0 get link failures if test_main is defined like this:
 >>
 >>      int test_main(int,char**)
 >>
 >> I've just been changing those to
 >>
 >>      int test_main(int,char*[])
 >> which works fine.
 >
 >Yeh. I should have mention that in note. I also remarked this behaviour 
on
 >some compilers. I did not find other fix, but just follow in test modules 

 >test_main specification that is in the library. Do you have other
 >propositions? I could change it in library to first form, but that I 
afraid
 >will cause second to fail. Though I will try.

I personally don't have any problem requiring people use the

    int test_main(int,char*[])

As Bill Kempf already suggested, it might be nice to find out what the 
standard says, but the work around is so simple I don't think we should 
worry a great deal about it now.  Let's clear the other issues first.

But maybe you should note the issue in the docs if you haven't done so 
already.

Thanks,

--Beman