Re: [boost] [Serialization] Things that should be qualified.

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-25 01:14:54

David Abrahams wrote:
> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> There is also at least one macro in that category: BOOST_EXPORT.  That
>> in particular seems likely to cause problems, because after all
>> "export" is a keyword that's supported only on a few compilers and a
>> natural stand-in, for those who want to support export, would be
>> BOOST_EXPORT.  This should've been BOOST_SERIALIZATION_EXPORT.
> 
> BOOST_DLLEXPORT, BOOST_USED, ...

If that macro does what I think it does BOOST_DLLEXPORT is a bad choice. 
DLL exporting macros *must* be library specific otherwise boost 
libraries can not use each other. For an example look at the AFX_DLL 
mess MS created.

Thomas

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Thomas Witt
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