Re: [boost] [python] Tru64/CXX function template issues

From: Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve (rwgk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 11:17:18

--- Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Ralf, either you're a genious or it's pure coincidence that you are not hit 
> by the bug in the iotraits header file. :-)

I like to take the best of everything, that would make me a pure genious.
Thanks! :)

> This is pretty bad because quite a few boost libraries depend on more than 
> only the C names as specified in the standard. (thread and fs at least, 
> IIRC, but I think there are more)

In the hot days of Boost.Python development we were very careful to use only
ANSI features. Anything else is non-portable and bound to break somewhere,
sooner or later. I.e. I think the libraries that don't compile with -std
strict_ansi should be fixed.

Cheers,
        Ralf

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