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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-01 05:46:28

>Each TU included a call to foo::bar() and only when the explicit
>instantiation of foo_base::bar() was present, the program worked as
>expected in all instantiation modes, when compiled with cxx (and g++) on 
>Tru64.
>
>I had a look at the generated object files and indeed there are definitions
>for the static variable t in each object file, but they have so called
>common linkage, which means that only one symbol is finally chosen.
>
>So I think it will be ok to add the change when the instantiation is
>wrapped in appropriate #ifdefs. What do you think, John?

OK go ahead and add the explicit instantiations wrapped in #ifdef's, make 
sure there is a comment explaining the problem as well, thanks for delving 
into this!

John.