Re: [boost] Boost regression notification (2005-09-02 [HEAD])

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-02 16:32:32

Doug Gregor wrote:
>>Thanks.  I am a little surprised that como is not among requred 
>>compilers -- is seems to be pretty popular...
> 
> IIRC, we've had problems with compiler stability and linking that have 
> prevented us from making Comeau a release compiler. If we can fix those 
> and get a good pass rate, we can make it a release compiler.

There are problems with Comeau on Windows. One problem is that Comeau 
does not fully support dynamic libraries, and the other that it is not 
obvious what "standard conformity level" should be selected for this 
compiler (ie. non-strict, strict warnings --a or strict --A). Compiler 
running in non-strict accepts OS headers, but then it is also least 
portable (it emulates bugs specific to other compilers on this 
platform). Hopefully next version will have better support for shared 
libraries and will accept OS headers in strict mode. I do not know if 
these issues apply to other platforms. It would be nice to support 
Comeau in strict (or strict warnings) mode on at least one combination 
platform + backend C compiler.

B.