Re: [boost] Help requested for Metrowerks workaround

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-30 09:08:52

On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:58 PM, Eric Friedman wrote:

> I've recently added reference support to variant. For instance, the
> following is now supported:
>
> Unfortunately, the addition of this constructor seems to have broken 
> variant
> under Metrowerks in some situations. So far, I have discovered that 
> embedded
> variants cause a problem when implicit conversions to these embedded
> variants occur. If the preceding description is unclear, the attached 
> file
> demonstrates the problem in code.
>
> The attached code compiles and runs successfully on MSVC 6.5, MSVC 
> 7.1, gcc
> 3.2, and Borland 5.5.1, but I cannot get it to compile under 
> CodeWarrior
> 8.3. The compiler complains about "ambiguous access to overloaded 
> function."
>
> My first instinct is to disable reference support for CodeWarrior (as
> #defining BOOST_VARIANT_NO_REFERENCE_SUPPORT does solve the problem), 
> but
> CodeWarrior is generally a quite conformant compiler. I therefore hope
> someone might find a workaround.

If you will mail me a complete condensed demo, I'll take a look.  I 
downloaded boost 1.30.2 but was unable to find boost/variant.

-Howard