Re: [boost] [range] broken PTS work-arounds

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-18 16:09:08

Jens Seidel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:29:16PM -0800, Eric Niebler wrote:
>> Boost.range has a pile of work-arounds that made it "work" on old 
>> compilers that don't do partial template specialization. Nobody is 
>> testing those compilers anymore, so it's not surprising that those 
>> work-arounds are now broken. To wit, the following program:
>>
>>    #include <boost/range/iterator_range.hpp>
>>
>>    int main()
>>    {}
>>
>> fails to compile on VC6. If nobody is interested in these old compilers, 
> 
> I tried to compile all headers using a g++ 4.3 snapshot and noticed no
> problems except:

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Please don't hijack my thread. Your post is not in response to mine. You 
should start a new thread.

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Eric Niebler
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