[boost] Re: RPC library

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-07 14:12:37

Russell Hind wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>>
>>
>> Do you mean that the 5.x compiler will receive updates, or are you
>> talking about the EDG-based compiler?
>>
>
> The EDG compiler is on hold indefinitely (unfortunately),

I was afraid of that :(

> so it will
> be an updated 5.x.  We just don't know how updated.

Looks like I may have to rewrite a lot of guards of the form

    #if BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, < 0x600)

;-)

Anway, I'm happy to hear that there will be updates.

> Apart from using
> DinkumWare, specific fixes haven't been mentioned although Borland
> employess are now traweling through qc (http://qc.borland.com/) opening
> up bug reports that have been made over the last 2-3 years since BCB6
> (bcc32-5.6.4) was released.

> Have a look at
>
> http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,32958,00.html
>
> for a little bit more info (although not a whole lot yet, mostly about
> BCB as an IDE, not the compiler itself)

Thanks!

Jonathan