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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-25 10:01:54


"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> Hum, it looks like Microsoft took you up on it. See the
>> shared_ptr_test warning on the VC++ 7.1 beta regression test.
>
> No, C4675 is the opposite of what Dave wants. Earlier MSVC didn't support
> ADL at all, and MSVC 7.1 is now issuing the warning for every place ADL
> kicks in since this may alter the behavior of existing code. Dave wants a
> warning when ADL could have kicked in but didn't.

Or rather, where it did kick in but it found nothing, so the fallback
was the name in the local namespace.

> Sounds like a neat plan to solicit _many_ user complaints. ;-)

No kidding!

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Dave Abrahams
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