Re: [boost] MSVC++ 6.0 compiler errors with 1.30.0 (mostly lexical_cast.hpp)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 16:06:10

Terje Slettebø <tslettebo_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> C:\Program Files\Boost\boost_1_30_0\boost/lexical_cast.hpp(74) : warning
> C4512: 'no_lexical_conversion<class std::basic_string<char,struct
> std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >,long>' : assignment
> operator could not be generated
>
> This is due to that it stores a const std::string object, describing the
> exception

Are you saying that you have defined an exception with a std::string
member?  That's VERY bad!  Throwing that exception can lead directly
to termination!

What's wrong with char const*?

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