Re: [boost] [fusion][IBM xlc] TR1 tests and others failing.

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-27 12:40:06

Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> Not an ideal fix, but illustrates where the change for our compiler
>> is necessary in the Boost source.  The changes would need to be made
>> in fusion/adapter/std_pair.hpp,
>> fusion/sequence/generation/make_vector.hpp,
>> fusion/sequence/generation/make_list.hpp to name a few :-(
>
> Quite a lot. Fusion relies on it for, e.g. enable_if specialized
> classes. I'm curious though why all fusion::tuple tests run ok
> while the fusion::vector tests fail. The former is built using
> the latter
> (http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/fusion.html)
>> So there is a source work around as well as a compiler fix.  Like I
>> mentioned earlier it will be some time before the compiler change is
>> reflected into a production compiler.  One of our internal
>> requirements that we have for publishing results is that the
>> compiler used to publish results has to be available to customers
>> therefore I cannot use a pre-release compiler for nightly Boost runs.
>>
>> How would you like to proceed?
>
> I'd be willing to put in workarounds (ifdefs). Alas, I do not have
> access to this compiler. I'd appreciate help from you or someone else.

Since I've been the one pushing you fix this... I don't mind spending some 
time on this, but I don't have access to this platform/compiler either. 
Even if we could just get the TR1 tuples working that would be a big start.

John.