Re: [boost] [typeof]extremely long lines in vector200.hpp causes ClearCase problem

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-20 02:54:12

Sean Huang wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tobias Schwinger" <tschwinger_at_[hidden]>
> 
> 
>>Sean Huang wrote:
>>
>>>vector200.hpp contains lines with more than 8000 characters. This causes
>>>problems when the file is added to IBM Rational ClearCase which has an
>>>8000-character upper limit for text files. The workaround is to check it 
>>>in
>>>as a binary file but this eliminates the possibility of future merges. Is 
>>>it
>>>possible to make the lines shorter?
>>
>>Not easily - it's preprocessor generated code. Running some kind of code 
>>beautifier
>>on it might work (meant as a user-side solution).
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> I am curious why the author(s) did not leave the preprocessor directives in 
> place. Not willing to introduce dependencies on boost.preprocessor?

It was me (not being an author of that library) who contributed that part (that's why I replied). It's an optimization that speeds up preprocessing by about factor 10. 

Regards,

Tobias