Re: [boost] [iostreams][vc8] depreceted standard library memberfunctions; fatal linker error

From: Keith MacDonald (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-01 14:20:38

To disable the deprecation warnings, define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. For 
more information, search for _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE at 
http://msdn.microsoft.com.

- Keith MacDonald

"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:da41hq$nbd$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing warnings that a number of core stream and stream buffer member
> functions, such as 'read' and 'sgetn' are declared deprecated by VC8 beta 
> 2.
> Maybe this is part of the push to promote 'safe' versions of functions 
> which
> take character arrays as arguments; I can't check the standard library 
> source
> code, because I gave up trying to install beta 2 after 3 tries.
>
> At any rate, it seems totally crazy. As far as I know, there's no 
> proposal -- 
> and no need -- to replace the core member functions responsible for 
> unformatted
> i/o. Even if microsoft adds functions to replace the deprecated members, 
> how is
> one supposed to write portable code? It seems like all non-trivial use of
> iostreams, and the Iostreams library in particular, will result in large 
> numbers
> of warnings on this platform.
>
> Also, the iostreams test counter_test.cpp is failing with an "unkown" 
> linker
> error. It would be very helpful to me if someone who has managed to 
> install beta
> 2 would take a quick look to see what might be going wrong.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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