Re: [boost] New Borland compiler has a conforming preprocessor?

From: Zara (yozara_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-21 09:56:01

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:24:42 +0100, Tobias Schwinger
<tschwinger_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>AlisdairM wrote:
>> I am far from a preprocessor expert though, and wonder what other tests
>> I should look at before pushing this update?
>
>Well, I would not call myself an expert either and I don't know if this post 
>should affect your update plans.
>Anyway: since you seem to have that new compiler installed I would find it 
>interesting to know whether the "tuple testers" in the detail directory of 
>Boost.Preprocessor work as expected now (they did not work with older versions of 
>the Borland preprocessor):
>
>     #include <boost/preprocessor/detail/is_nullary.hpp>
>     #include <boost/preprocessor/detail/is_unary.hpp>
>     #include <boost/preprocessor/detail/is_binary.hpp>
>
>     BOOST_PP_IS_NULLARY(foo)      // should expand to 0
>     BOOST_PP_IS_UNARY(foo)        // should expand to 0
>     BOOST_PP_IS_BINARY(foo)       // should expand to 0
>
>     BOOST_PP_IS_NULLARY(())       // should expand to 1
>     BOOST_PP_IS_UNARY((foo))      // should expand to 1
>     BOOST_PP_IS_BINARY((foo,bar)) // should expand to 1
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Tobias
>
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After some adjusting of boost/config/borland.hpp, and adding the
suggested test, these are the results of config_info nullary,unary and
binary results at the end):

#Unknown ISO C++ Compiler
#    __BORLANDC__                            =0x0581
#    __CDECL__                               =1
#    __CONSOLE__                             =1
#    _CPPUNWIND                              =1
#    __cplusplus                             =1
#    __FLAT__                                =1
#    __FUNC__                                ="print_compiler_macros"
#    _M_IX86                                 =500
#    __TLS__                                 =1
#    _WCHAR_T                                 [no value]
#    _Windows                                =1
#    __WIN32__                               =1
#    _WIN32                                  =1
#    _RTLDLL                                  [no value]
#    _WCHAR_T_DEFINED                         [no value]
#    _DLL                                    =1
#    __i386__                                =1
#    _WCHAR_T                                 [no value]
#    __STDC_HOSTED__                         =1
#
#
#*********************************************************************
#
#Dinkumware standard library version 402
#    _CPPLIB_VER                             =402
#    _HAS_EXCEPTIONS                         =1
#
#
#*********************************************************************
#
#Detected Platform: Win32
#    Type char is signed
#    Type wchar_t is unsigned
#    byte order for type short               =0 8 
#    byte order for type int                 =0 8 16 24 
#    byte order for type long                =0 8 16 24 
#    sizeof(wchar_t)                         =2
#    sizeof(short)                           =2
#    sizeof(int)                             =4
#    sizeof(long)                            =4
#    sizeof(size_t)                          =4
#    sizeof(ptrdiff_t)                       =4
#    sizeof(void*)                           =4
#    sizeof(void(*)(void))                   =4
#    sizeof(float)                           =4
#    sizeof(double)                          =8
#    sizeof(long double)                     =10
#    CHAR_BIT                                =8
#    CHAR_MAX                                =127
#    WCHAR_MAX                               =0x7fff
#    SHRT_MAX                                =32767
#    INT_MAX                                 =2147483647L
#    LONG_MAX                                =2147483647L
#    __STDC_IEC_559__                        =1
#    __STDC_IEC_559_COMPLEX__                =1
#    __STDC_ISO_10646__                      =200009L
#
#
#*********************************************************************
#
#Boost version 103301
#    BOOST_USER_CONFIG                       =<boost/config/user.hpp>
#    BOOST_COMPILER_CONFIG ="boost/config/compiler/borland.hpp"
#    BOOST_STDLIB_CONFIG ="boost/config/stdlib/dinkumware.hpp"
#    BOOST_PLATFORM_CONFIG ="boost/config/platform/win32.hpp"
#    BOOST_BCB_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION_BUG     [no value]
#    BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME                  =typename
#    BOOST_FUNCTION_SCOPE_USING_DECLARATION_BREAKS_ADL [no value]
#    BOOST_HAS_DECLSPEC                       [no value]
#    BOOST_HAS_FTIME                          [no value]
#    BOOST_HAS_PARTIAL_STD_ALLOCATOR          [no value]
#    BOOST_MSVC6_MEMBER_TEMPLATES             [no value]
#    BOOST_NESTED_TEMPLATE                   =template
#    BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_NESTED_DERIVATIONS    [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING      [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_HASH                            [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_INTEGRAL_INT64_T                [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_IS_ABSTRACT                     [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_LONG_LONG_NUMERIC_LIMITS        [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS         [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_MS_INT64_NUMERIC_LIMITS         [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_PRIVATE_IN_AGGREGATE            [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_SFINAE                          [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_SLIST                           [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_SWPRINTF                        [no value]
#    BOOST_NO_USING_TEMPLATE                  [no value]
#    BOOST_STD_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE           =std
#    BOOST_UNREACHABLE_RETURN(0)              [no value]
#
#nullary(foo):0
#unary(foo):0
#binary(foo):0
#nullary(()):1
#unary((foo)):1
#binary((foo,bar)):1

If I do understand it right, Borland has cirrectedthe preprocessor

Best regads,

Zara