Re: [boost] static templates in BOOST

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-07 21:29:09

On Jul 7, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Steve Clamage wrote:
> OSL is currently getting the beta versions of our next compiler 
> release (Sun
> Studio 10 update 1, C++ 5.8). Sun C++ still has many BOOST test 
> failures. We
> found the problem with static templates in an internal compiler update 
> that we
> won't distribute until we resolve which failures are errors in BOOST, 
> and which
> are compiler bugs.

Just a follow-up: I've installed the Sun compilers on one of our OSL 
systems. It shows up as "OSL4" (sunpro-5_8u1-sunos) on the regression 
tests. It's far too late in the Boost release cycle to consider it a 
release platform, but we'll be running the tests nightly regardless.

        Doug