Re: [boost] AIX vacpp question

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-10 12:29:25

At 07:23 AM 3/10/2004, John Maddock wrote:

 >> Well the problem seems to be caused by an unsuccesfull compilation of
 >> cpp_regex_traits.o
 >> At line 236 of cpp_regex_traits.cpp for instance a
 >> std::messages<char>::catalog is casted to an int and vacpp does not 
like
 >> it. I'm not very familiar with localization and I could not find any
 >> indication in the standard that casting the catalog type to an int
 >> should be possible (John?,Robert?)
 >>
 >> As a last resort we could define BOOST_NO_STD_MESSAGES but this will
 >> AFAICT no justice to the vacpp compiler that _does_ provide the
 >> std::messages.
 >
 >OK, this has come up before: the standard *requires* that
 >std::messages<>::catalog is an int, and that on failure
 >std::messages<>::open returns a negative value.  However IBM in their
 >wisdom
 >have made std::messages<>::catalog a pointer type, now I understand why
 >they're done this, but it makes it impossible to write portable code that
 >manipulates std::messages IMO.

I've been given to understand IBM is escalating consideration this issue. 
That doesn't imply any commitment to fix it, but at least it won't be 
forgotten.

--Beman