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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-10 14:34:08


"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> writes:

> AlisdairM wrote:
>> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>
>>> Boost regression test failures
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Report time: 2005-06-10T15:08:58Z
>>>
>>>> parameter|
>>> basics: borland-5_6_4
>>> macros: borland-5_6_4
>>> sfinae: borland-5_6_4
>>
>> Please mark these tests as expected-fail and the compiler as
>> unsupported.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that; it seems to be the same problem that occurred with
> earlier version of the library. I was hoping I could use named parameters in the
> iostreams library, and get rid of the awkward classes mapped_file_params,
> zlib_params, bzip2_params, ....
>
> I remember that at one point Dave and Daniel had given up trying to
> support Borland,

I forgot that. It may not be doable then. I did try everything.

> but I was encouraged that they had not marked this toolset as
> unusable.

Just laziness, I'm afraid.

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Dave Abrahams
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