Re: [boost] Re: RC_1_30_0 still broken -- More lexical_cast

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-18 08:20:25

At 01:11 AM 3/18/2003, Kevlin Henney wrote:

 >>Look at the error messages from date_time testperiod below, and the 
source
 >>code lines they refer to. At least directly, they don't seem releated to 

 >>wide character support.
 >
 >They are not, but the question is what is meant by
 >BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM? Does it mean that std::stringstream is not
 >supported and/or that std::basic_stringstream is not supported? The
 >lexical_cast code assumes that <sstream> is not standard if
 >BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM is defined, and that it is standard if it is not
 >defined. Clearly, the contents of <sstream> are not standard otherwise
 >the code would compile.
 >
 >Either we need to clarify the intent of BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM or we need
 >to added another feature test macro, eg BOOST_NO_BASIC_STRINGSTREAM or
 >no BOOST_NO_STD_SSTREAM. My preference is that we generalise the meaning
 >of BOOST_NO_STRINGSTREAM, so that if that macro is defined the
 >programmer cannot assume standard string stream support, which --
 >judging by the error messages -- which is the case.

Kevlin,

My patience has been exhausted. The folks that care about configuring 
lexical_cast for GCC 2.95.3 with the SGI library need come forward 
immediately and tell us how to deal with this, or 1.30.0 will ship as is.

--Beman