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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage_at_[hidden]
Beman Dawes wrote:
> "Douglas Gregor" <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:47733b158c95de61a4e902c705d17da4_at_cs.indiana.edu...
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Good. That will help the Sun folks get their compiler into better shape, 
> which helps Boost too in the long run.
> 
> I see Boost.Filesystem is causing an assert in Sun code:
> 
>  >> Assertion:   (../lnk/init.cc, line 1032)
>     while processing 
> /tmp/dgregor/BoostRegressionTesting/boost/boost/filesystem/path.hpp at line 
> 66.
> 
> Line 66 is just a simple member declaration:
> 
>      std::string  leaf() const;
> 
> Hum... That same assert is firing for some other libraries. Type traits 
> tricky_function_type_test for example.
> 
> Do you happen to know where we file bug reports for sunpro-5_8u1?
> 
> --Beman 
>