Re: [boost] [regex] Clearing failures in regex_regress on Tru64/CXX

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-28 10:23:09

> Attached patch clears the current failures in regex_regress on Tru64/CXX.
>
> Basically it adds an explicit instantiation of a template class needed
> because otherwise CXX ends up with multiple instances of the static
> variable used in the class, which is because of the template compilation
> model chosen for the compiler. As it shouldn't hurt other compilers, I
> didn't wrap it in #if ... #endif.
>
> Secondly it avoids three tricky test cases which hang the test program
> otherwise.
>
> Ok to commit?

Not quite: the explicit instantiation are not legal C++ if applied in more 
than one translation unit.  If you wrap them in the appropriate #ifdef's 
then it's probably OK to commit.  (I say probably, because I'm not sure what 
Tru64 cxx does in other template instantiation modes, I suspect the patch 
may actually mess some of them up).

John.