Re: [boost] pa-risc HP-UX compatibility.

From: Boris Gubenko (Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-05 09:53:55

I've forwarded your mail to the people responsible for the C headers on PA_RISC.

Thanks for reporting this issue.

Boris Gubenko
HP C++ team.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jurko Gospodnetiæ" <jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Cc: <asio-users_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:27 AM
Subject: [boost] pa-risc HP-UX compatibility.

>   Hi.
>
>   HP-UX system header '/usr/include/machine/reg.h' found on pa-risc
> HP-UX 11.11 defines R1, R2, R3, etc. macros which conflict with some
> boost headers.
>
>   Conflicting headers found in Boost 1.34.1. are
> 'boost/iterator/iterator_facade.hpp' (several template parameter names)
> and 'boost/test/test_tools.hpp' (one local variable name). We have not
> checked the current trunk/1.35 release branches.
>
>   Could these and any other conflicting files be updated to not use
> these identifier names? Such changes should be trivial renames.
>
>   Also, most likely some Boost coding convention documentation should
> be updated to reference this.
>
>   We ran into this problem when looking into porting the Boost ASIO
> library to HP-UX and working around this problem will be necessary in
> order to get this port working.
>
>   Note though that newer HP-UX releases do not have this problem
> (tested on HP-UX ai64 11.23)
>
>   Hope this helps.
>
>   Best regards,
>     Jurko Gospodnetiæ
>
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