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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-22 16:19:37


At 03:51 PM 12/22/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> In researching the octonion_test failure on Intel, I noticed the
>> intel-win32 toolset was supplying the c++ compile option:
>>
>> -Qoption,c,--arg_dep_lookup
>>
>> Shouldn't that be:
>>
>> -Qoption,cpp,--arg_dep_lookup
>>
>> IIUC, the "c" causes the option to be passed to the C compiler rather
>> than the C++ compiler.
>>
>> The octonion_test fails either way, but I think we ought to correct
>> the toolset anyhow. I didn't change it myself because of fear I'm not
>> understanding the docs correctly, or that someone with special
>> knowledge set it up in the first place.
>
>As far as I can tell, "c" works for C++. For example, you can
>demonstrate it by exceeding template nesting limits and then adding
>-Qoption,c,--pend=50000
>and recompiling.

OK, thanks. I added a comment to that effect to the toolset.

--Beman


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