Re: [boost] [config] Why is BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG defined insuffix.hpp?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-19 07:09:13

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:41:40 +0100, John Maddock wrote
 
> Yep, I can reproduce that via HP-Testdrive, worse the std lib *does* 
> support numeric_limits<long long>, it's just the iostreams stuff 
> that's missing.
> 
> As far as limits_test is concerned there's a workaround for the same 
> problem with MSVC specifically for that test, I've tested the 
> following patch as a workaround for gcc, and it fixes the issue for 
> now, but we should probably add a new config macro or something if 
> there are any other tests affected though.  What do you think? 

As I recall there were issues with lack of i/o support in some 2.92 versions
of gcc as well -- but in any case date-time will benefit from this change b/c
it depends on i/o for int64 and uint64.

Jeff