[boost] Re: BOOST_STD_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE and dinkumware stdlib 313

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-26 12:50:07

"Sean Kelly" <sean_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:1261.66.126.231.101.1075137787.squirrel_at_www.mail.f4.ca...
> > For the Dinkumware library supplied with VC,
BOOST_STD_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE
> > is defined to be std wich works, but the latest version that comes
with
> > VC7.1 deprecates the version in the std namespace and provides a
version
> > in
> > the stdext namespace. The problem is that:
> ..
> > will generate too many 'deprecated function' warnings in VC7.1,
making it
> > harder to find actual errors!
>
> Why not just disable that warning with a #pragma?  I already do this
> regularly with the "debug symbol name too long" message and a few
others.
>

If Dinkumware has made this change uniformly in its various
distributions, it sounds like BOOST_STD_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE should be
defined to be stdext in boost/config/stdlib/dinkumware.hpp if
_CPPLIB_VER is a certain value or higher (313?).

Jonathan