Re: [boost] [fusion] Illegal partial specialization error.

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-12 06:29:44

Joel de Guzman wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> Michael Marcin wrote:
>>> If I include <boost/fusion/support/tag_of.hpp> my compiler (derived from 
>>> Metrowerks 9.4) gives me several errors claiming illegal partial 
>>> specializations.
>>>
>>> It looks like it's partially specializing forward declarations of the tag_of 
>>> structure.  I don't know if that's allowed (from the error I assume probably 
>>> not) but it certainly seems to be pointless to me.  Are these perhaps 
>>> supposed to be more than declarations?
>> What's the point, if you (partially) specialize it anyway ?
>>
>> FWIW, I have seen similar errors with IBM's XLC++ and am pretty sure that
>> at least in that particular case it was a compiler bug.
> 
> Yes, it's most probably a compiler bug. I've seen this before.
> patch welcome ;-). I do not have CW now.

...and we gave up on XLC++ with our project. So no ideas about possible work-arounds
from me either. Sorry.

                Stefan

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