Re: [boost] Re: [type-traits] Patch to alignment_of.hpp for Sun c ompiler

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-08 07:20:44

Christopher Currie wrote:
> While in theory I agree with Aleksey, I tried David's suggestion of
> inhibiting in-class static constant initialization. This single change
> eliminatated all but one of the remaining problems I've had compiling
> the tests for type_traits (there's still an assertion happening with
> type_with_alignment_test, I'll be looking into that next).
>
> While this hides some gross inadequecies of the Sun compiler,

We weren't trying to highlight those :), rather to determine if the code in
question needs patching regardless of whether Sun can handle or not. It
doesn't, so...

> I'm all in
> favor of getting Boost to compile reliably for users of this platform.
> Can someone make this change to the Sun config?

Done.

Aleksey