Re: [boost] Visual C++ 8.0 Compiler Bug makes namespaces public

From: Marcus Lindblom (macke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-15 02:07:20

Christopher Lux wrote:
> Hi,
> we discovered a compiler bug using Visual C++ 8.0 (SP1). This bug makes 
> boost namespace items visible in the global namespace and so makes boost 
> libraries conflict with other libraries. The following example [1] 
> displays how this bug can make namespace items public. When moving the 
> exception class definition outside the namespace everything works as 
> expected.
> 
> We encountered this problem when using boost::integer in combination 
> with boost::serialization. After including the file shared_count_132.hpp 
> all boost::integer types are public and conflict with other libraries. 
> This leads to the problem shown in the example [0]. The uint32_t type is 
> publicly visible.
> 
> To our knowledge this bug is present in Visual C++ 8.0 (SP1). Visual C++ 
> 9.0 does not show this bug anymore.

We found this last week, I posed it to the list and filed a ticket: 
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1773

We found it in conjunction with IntelTBB, rather than boost::integer though.

Robert has fixed it though, it looks like. (Good work!)

Cheers
/Marcus