Re: [boost] Request: BOOST_ENABLE_LONG_LONG

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-11 08:09:19

Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> writes:

> As I've asked in a recent post, I would like to have boost not using
> non-standard features (e.g. long long), unless they are explicitly
> requested by the user. The reason, besides general boost philosophy
> considerations, is that, with some compilers, it is otherwise
> impossible to compile code that includes boost headers, even if the
> client code makes no use of the offending feature. For instance, Intel
> C++ 6.0 in --strict mode flags any use of long long with an error, and
> the obvious -Qoption,c,--long_long isn't accepted (maybe there's an
> alternative for it though, I don't know).
>
> Could we subordinate BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG to
> defined(BOOST_ENABLE_LONG_LONG)?

Even if we're willing to break user code and tell them they have to
define that macro explicitly, we'd have to be very careful; we have
tests that exercise long long and we don't want to break those or
disable that part of the testing.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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