Re: [boost] anonymous namespaces and Intel C++ 8

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-14 20:17:34

At 03:55 PM 12/14/2003, Matthias Troyer wrote:
 >Dear Boosters,
 >
 >In trying to get our boost-based codes to compile with Intel C++
 >version 8 I realized one important restriction of that compiler with
 >anonymous namespaces (used in boost for the placeholder symbols _1,
 >_2,... ). With Intel C++ version 8 these anonymous namespace symbols
 >give multiple definition errors at link time if they occur in two
 >different object files with the same name (even if one of these object
 >files is part of a static library (.a file).

That sounds awful. Have you reported it to Intel?

--Beman