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

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-06 08:09:40

John Maddock wrote:

>>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!

Phew, I finally managed to do the commit. That should clear the last error 
for Tru64/cxx65.

Markus