[boost] Re: filesystem fstream on VC6

From: Vincent Finn (vincent_finn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-19 11:48:15

Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 11:01 AM 9/19/2002, Vincent Finn wrote:
> 
>  >has anyone hit this problem ?
>  >
>  >filesystem\fstream does not compile for me
>  >I am running VC6 SP4
> 
> Yes, that's a known problem with VC++6.0 that Microsoft fixed in 7.0.
> 
> Assuming the library gets accepted, I'll try to find a workaround.
> 
> I should mention one other known problem with the current 
> filesystem/fstream.hpp implementation: any of the inherited member 
> functions which return the type of the object need to be overridden to 
> return the boost::filesystem::xxx type.  Probably not a problem for most 
> code, but does need to be fixed before a final release.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Beman

Cheers
I thought it'd be a VC problem but wanted to make sure

        Thanks, Vin