Re: [boost] [math][Sunpro] Can anyone help porting to Sun's compiler?

From: Simon Atanasyan (atanasyan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-11 09:24:24

2007/10/11, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]>:
> The new Math statistical distributions and special functions code currently
> fails with Sun's compiler
> http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/Sandia-sun-boost-bin-v2-libs-math-test-test_beta-test-sun-5-9-debug.html
> with error messages such as:
>
> "../boost/math/concepts/real_concept.hpp", line 333: Error: Could not find a
> match for boost::math::tools::epsilon<boost::math::tools::T>().
> "../boost/math/special_functions/detail/unchecked_factorial.hpp", line 268:
> Error: Could not find a match for
> boost::math::unchecked_factorial<boost::math::RT>(unsigned).
> "../boost/math/special_functions/detail/unchecked_factorial.hpp", line 269:
> Error: Could not find a match for
> boost::math::unchecked_factorial<boost::math::RT>(unsigned) needed in
> boost::math::unchecked_factorial<boost::math::RT>(unsigned).
>
> The gcc results on that platform are pretty good, so it seems a shame not to
> support Sun as well, anyone have ideas?

Probably this is a bug in Sun C++. I will take a look on it.

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Simon Atanasyan