[boost] Re: Bug in boost/empty.hpp with variant??

From: Eric Friedman (ebf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-25 16:45:06

Allen Bierbaum wrote:
> I just tried to use boost::variant with the HEAD version of boost and I
> am getting multiply defined symbols in empty.hpp.  (gcc 3.2 on Linux)
>
> I fixed it by adding "inline" to the two non-template methods (see below):
>
> inline bool operator==(const empty&, const empty&)
> {
>      return true;
> }
>
> inline bool operator<(const empty&, const empty&)
> {
>      return false;
> }
>
>
> Is this a bug in the code or is there some other way to wrok around it?

Not sure, but I inlined the functions anyway since they're so simple. Let me
know if you have any further problems.

Thanks,
Eric