[boost] Re: Re: [assign] MinGW list_of() set<string> problem

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-30 09:04:23

"Daniel Schlyder" <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:12236559906.20050330152342_at_bitblaze.com...
| Thorsten Ottosen:
| > hm..is this from a cvs snapshot? If so, please update.
|
| No, I'm using CVS HEAD. I just updated and recompiled with the same result.
| I'm using MinGW GCC 3.4.2, BTW, sorry for not mentioning before.
|
| > what is the virtual_control::s__xxxxxxxxxx ? Why don't you write
| >
| > const std::set<std::string> foo = ...:
|
| s_unbindables_permanent is a static variable in a class named
| virtual_control.

ok.

| > hm...don't call to adapter unless you are dealing with an adapter (queue,
| > priority_queue, stack).
|
| Oh, I'm not much of a C++ expert, as I'm sure you understand. ;) Didn't know
| the difference between a container and a container adapter.
|
| > Read about to_container() instead.
|
| Thanks. Using it, the code compiles. I see it's mentioned as being a
| workaround. Is it really needed for GCC 3.4.2? Why then did it work before?

yeah, good question. I will ahve to look into this...sometime...
the regresion tests shown that list_of don't work too well with
gcc.

| (Not sure when I last worked on this code, might be as long as a month ago.
| I can try to find out exactly when it stopped working (the CVS date, I mean)
| if that would be useful.)

I would be worth knowing if the old boost.1.32 code worked with your
compiler.

-Thorsten