RE: [boost] wave use to clarify PP usage

From: Paul Mensonides (pmenso57_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-14 16:25:52

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Larry Evans

> Does anyone have a tool that would clarify what's happening 
> with some PP macros in, for example:
> 
>    boost/spirit/fusion/sequence/tuple.hpp
> 
> For example, could wave be used to sort-of trace through the 
> macro expansions to make the code easier to understand.

Wave does have a tracing facility.

> Does for a 1 argument CTOR.  I could run it through cpp, but 
> if there are several nested macro calls, it probably wouldn't 
> help much in understand what's going on.

It may or may not help that much--even with tracing--because of the workarounds
in the pp-lib.

Regards,
Paul Mensonides