Re: [boost] Re: Intel C++ for Linux defines __GNUC__!!

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-05 15:11:30

At 11:47 AM 1/5/2004, David Abrahams wrote:

 >>> If we do that, we can also ensure that BOOST_CONFIG #defines all of
 >>> them (mostly to zero) and we can eliminate the issues with warnings
 >>> from BOOST_WORKAROUND doing comparisons on macros which haven't been
 >>> defined.
 >>
 >> I didn't realize there were such issues, but this is a good idea.
 >
 >Good.  What do we do about intel 8.0 for the 1.31.0 release?  Should
 >we change all occurrences of __GNUC__ in the library?  Sounds like a
 >bad bet before the release...

I agree. We need to address the problem, but it will take time to do so 
carefully, and then test whatever we do.

--Beman