[boost] Re: Patch for dynamic_bitset

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-19 12:03:22

Gennaro Prota wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:33:31 +0100, Markus Schöpflin
> <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>You are right, it's a conformance problem with VA6, at least on my 
>>installation. But the fix on the 1.29.0 branch should work. Could you 
>>please merge it to the main trunk?
> 
> Well, I think that's up to Jeremy or Chuck who are the authors of the
> library.
> 
> Anyhow, I'm not sure we have understood each other (maybe party the
> fact I talked about "main branch" instead of "main trunk", sorry): the
> version shipped with boost 1.29.0 has no conditionals around the calls
> to allocate(): it simply passes the second argument explicitly.

The main difference is that it casts the NULL to void * and VA6 can 
deal with that. I just tried. This means that the version on the 
branch would work with this compiler.

I'm guessing that Jeremy or Chuck just forgot to merge the changes 
back into the main trunk.

Markus