Re: [boost] Any sunpro experts out there?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-08 08:47:06

Tomas Puverle wrote:
>> The sunpro type_traits tests are currently mostly failing because
>> is_enum is broken, this in turn is likely to really be an
>> is_convertible failure.
>>
>> There are a few possible preprocessor branches that could be taken
>> for is_convertible, if some kind soul with access to sunpro would
>> give these a try and see if any fix the errors that would be very
>> welcome.
>
> Which boost version?  HEAD, 1.33.1, RC_1_34?  Not a sunpro expert by
> any means but I have 6.2, 8.1, 10 and 11 for Sparc and a new test box
> with 11 for AMD, but I would say boost should ignore Sunpro prior to
> 11, really, since getting to build on 6.2 or 8.1 is close to
> impossible.  Perhaps you could also write to Simon at Sun who is
> working on making Sunpro as boost compatible as possible, including
> any patches:  http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/sga.  That may be an
> even better idea.

It does look like the way to go: actually he's claiming that all the 
type_traits tests pass in his blog, so either we're missing a patch, or our 
test compiler isn't up to date.  I don't suppose you have an email address 
for the guy?  I can't find one on the blog site.

Thanks,  John.