[boost] Re: Config failure (intel-win32-7.1-vc6-stlport-4.5.3)

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-30 07:44:43

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

>> The one config failure:
>>
>>   http://tinyurl.com/wuoh#limits_test-intel-win32-7.1-vc6-stlport-4.5.3
>>
>> Is as a result of the fact that this compiler configuration has an
>> intrinsic wchar_t but that the version of STLPort doesn't supply a
>> specialization for it.
>>
>> How should we address this problem?
>
> File a bug report to the STLPort guys?
>
> Seriously is this our problem? I appreciate it's annoying to have a "broken"
> flag for that when it's beyond our control however...

The problem is that we have tests which fail because of it.  I
adjusted counting_iterator to supply a specialization for
is_numeric<wchar_t>, which was previously looking at
numeric_limits<wchar_t>::is_specialized.

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Dave Abrahams
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