Re: [boost] Is there any interest in a casting library where you don't need to specify a type of receiver?

From: Sergey Shandar (sergey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-07 21:34:17

shunsuke wrote:
> Sergey Shandar wrote:
>   
>> char c;
>> int i;
>> ...
>> // if(c == static_cast<char>(i))
>> if(c == cast::static_::value(i))
>> {
>> ...
>> }
>>     
>
> Hi,
> I too am trying to implement a similar facilities: http://tinyurl.com/ynmf5n
> `automatic<>::type` can take multiple arguments.
> BTW, does `polymorphic::ref` work on gcc?
> I recall I gave up supporting a reference type as target (e.g. `polymorphic::ref`),
> because gcc-3.4 and 4.1 show a weird compile error.
> (Though I found a workaround, it was not complete.)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   
References work on gcc-3.4.5 (mingw-special). I have not tried 4.X.X. 
See the test: 
http://tools.assembla.com/cbear/browser/trunk/cbear.berlios.de/cast/test.cpp.

What's wrong with GCC?