[boost] Re: Serialization compile errors on CW9

From: Giovanni Bajo (giovannibajo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-18 05:22:18

Miro Jurisic wrote:

> Inside iterator_facade, I had to change:
>
>       Derived const& derived() const
>       {
>           return static_cast<Derived const&>(*this);
>       }
>
>
> to
>       Derived const& derived() const
>       {
>           return *static_cast<Derived const*>(this);
>       }
>
> Without that change, CW gives a warning saying that the function
> returns a reference to an automatic variable. I am pretty sure the
> warning is wrong, but this change silenced it, and I don't have the
> time to read over the spec to find out if the warning is correct or
> not.

This is a known bug in CodeWarrior:
http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg57316.php

It's a miscompilation bug, and in CW8 you don't even get a warning. I strongly
suggest the code to be changed. Dave?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo