[boost] Re: Re: Wave C++ Review Begins Today - February 7, 2005

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-13 11:32:31

"Hartmut Kaiser" <HartmutKaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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> Andy Little wrote:
>
>> >    Did you have any problems?
>>
>> The only problems were with the wave.exe driver app. It
>> appears that both gcc( via DJGPP and cygwin) have invalid
>> filenames in headers, as does VC7.1.
>> "invalid filenames" eg "c++config.h",  threw exceptions
>> reported from boost::file_system.  Hence no substantial
>> translation-units were processed.
>
> As you've mentioned, this stems from the Boost.Filesystem library and
> actually I don't know, how to deal with this problem. But I'll try to
> investigate this and to find a way to circumvent these problems.
> Perhaps the authors of Boost.Filesystem could help out? Beman?

It may be possible to use boost::filesystem::path::default_name_check( 
name_check new_check ) function to achieve this?

BTW While on the subject, documentation on errors, messages, exceptions etc 
is a bit sparse IMO

regards
Andy Little