Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Intel compiler - does anyone care?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-03 17:47:52

Stefan Seefeld:

> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> Beman Dawes:
>>
>>> If there are folks who do care, perhaps they could suggest a plan to
>>> eliminate the failures, or at least shed light on why so many tests are
>>> failing.
>>
>> Most failures seem caused by the standard library which for some reason
>> fails on code like
>>
>> #include <algorithm>
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>>     char a[ 10 ], b[ 10 ];
>>     std::copy( a, a + 10, b );
>> }
>>
>> I don't have the compiler here to verify that the above fails, but if it
>> does, we probably need to submit it to Intel and Dinkumware and see what
>> they have to say about it.
>
> FWIW, the above code works fine with ICC 9.1 on Windows.

The failures are with 10.0, though, which seems to use Dinkumware 4.05 
according to config_info.