Re: [boost] sunpro 5_8 test at OSL (was static templates in BOOST)

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-08 00:01:37

Jeff Garland wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:29:09 -0500, Douglas Gregor wrote
>
>
>> 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.
>
> This is interesting.  Looks like Sun has made some serious forward
> progress. By my eye it looks like about 1/2 of the date-time tests
> now pass.  And that's a bit deceiving as it looks like a handful of
> problems are preventing most of the rest from compiling. As usual,
> it's I/O that's at the root of a big chunk of the problems. As I
> recall when Caleb was running SunPro almost none of date-time would
> compile...

Only one Iiostreams tests passes. All the errors I've checked are either
internal errors or problems with is_abstract. is_abstract_test, from type
traits, is also failing.

Config defines BOOST_NO_IS_ABSTRACT for __SUNPRO_CC < 0x570; I wonder if this
needs to be defined for  0x580?
Jonathan