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From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-04 08:02:13


> I was just about to build the filesystem library for the first time on my
> Win98+BCC 5.5.1 environment, but I got lots of errors from
> "type_traits/is_convertible.hpp"
> Since the regression_test shows that this library passed bcc5.6.1
yesterday,
> I thought that is_convertible might have changed today. Indeed, version
1.10
> (the previous) works fine. (that is, I was able to build the FS library)
>
> I attach here the compiler output using the -Q compiler option (which
shows
> extended error information).

It's a builder 5.5.1 bug: is_convertible does not work correctly with that
compiler (and never has), when one To parameter has a user defined
constructor.

John Maddock
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