Re: [boost] Another patch for long long in gcc -std=c++98

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-18 06:37:44

> Since I do not want to use -pedantic but not specify -Wno-longlong--I
> really do want the 'pedantic' warnings with unadorned extensions like
> long long warned--it is likely that I (and perhaps many other people who
> use GCC) will retain something like this patch locally if it is deemed
> inappropriate for Boost.  This would be unfortunate.

How about something like:

BOOST_EXTENSION(x)

which expands to "__extension__ x" on gcc and "x" otherwise?

Then we can use BOOST_EXTENSION(long long) where necessary.

Thoughts?

John.