Re: [boost] Re: Problems compiling program_options on vacpp

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-26 15:03:41

On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Matthias Troyer wrote:
>> Dear Boosters,
>> I have encountered the following problem compiling program_options on 
>>  the IBM Visual Age compiler 6.0. There seems to be a problem with  
>> exception declarations:
>>  xlC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../../src -I../../src -DNDEBUG  
>> -I/users/matroyer/boost -DNDEBUG -q32 -qlanglvl=extended -O2 -c -M  
>> /users/matroyer/boost/libs/program_options/src/convert.cpp -o 
>> convert.o
>> "/users/matroyer/boost/boost/program_options/detail/ 
>> utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp", line 144.17: 1540-1163 (S) The  
>> exception-specification for "int  
>> boost::program_options::detail::utf8_codecvt_facet_wchar_t:: 
>> do_length(mbstate_t &, const char *, const char *, std::size_t) 
>> const"  is less restrictive than the exception-specification for "int 
>>  std::codecvt<wchar_t,char,char *>::do_length(_St &, const _To *, 
>> const  _To *, size_t) const throw()".
>> Can the throw() declaration be added to do_length()?
>
> No. The section 22.2.1.5 clearly does not have the throw() as part of 
> the signature. I would say this is a bug in the vacpp libraries.

Could we at least add a workaround for vacpp?

Matthias