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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-27 16:17:08


"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> > Look at the bottom of boost\config\compiler\borland.hpp . If
> __BORLANDC__ is
>> > greater than 0x570 you will fail on this message. You need to bump up
> the
>> > 0x570 to be beyond what __BORLANDC__ is for the new compiler.
>>
>> Forcing an error in these cases seems wrong to me. In most cases
>> boost workarounds will degrade gracefully. Is there rationale for
>> not causing some kind of warning instead?
>
> It is a warning - with a #pragma message, although the new compiler doesn't
> support that yet, so you get a different warning to the one you would
> expect.

Is that what "you will fail" means?

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Dave Abrahams
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