[boost] Re: [thread] barrier.cpp don't compile with msvc60 & stlport

From: Sven Johannsen (Sven.Johannsen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-29 08:58:50

Guillaume Melquiond wrote:

> Le jeu 29/07/2004 à 12:30, John Maddock a écrit :
> 
>>>with the current cvs-version (7/23/2004) i can't build the thread
>>>library with stlport 4.5.3 and msvc60.
>>
>>[snipped]
>>
>>
>>>Sorry about the german error-text. it's something about: can't convert
>>>char[22] to 'class _STL::invalid_argument'
>>>
>>>I don't know that wrong about:
>>>throw std::invalid_argument("count cannot be zero.");
>>
>>I suspect the header needs to include <string>, note that while <stdexcept>
>>needs to forward declare std::basic_string, it doesn't need the full
>>definition, while the code that generates the error does.
> 
> 
> I'm interested in knowing if this solution does work. The Boost.Interval
> library always had (and still has) this kind of error in the regression
> logs for STLPort-4.5.3. However I couldn't reproduce it with my own
> version of STLPort. And since nobody seemed to care about this
> particular platform, I supposed that it was a bug in the old version of
> STLPort that was later corrected. I would be glad to learn it's only a
> matter of including <string>. Can anybody confirm that by simply adding
> #include <string> the compilers don't complain anymore about this kind
> of error?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guillaume
> 

it works!!!!

a small change and everything work fine. Can somebody make these change 
in the cvs-pool?

it's very easy, just add the line: "#include <string>" to the file 
barrier.cpp.

Sven