Re: [boost] [config] C++0x macros

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-29 11:46:30

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 09:58 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>
>>> BOOST_NO_UNICODE_LITERALS               // no Unicode literals
>> Grrr... At least one compiler beta is supporting u and U literals, but 
>> not U8 literals.
> 
> Will that vendor be supporting U8 literals before the final release? We
> don't need to cope with non-released compilers.

Good point. The product manager actually thought UTF-8 literals were 
supporting, so maybe they will appear in the final release.

We can always just define BOOST_NO_UNICODE_LITERALS until all three 
flavors are fully supported. That probably makes more sense.

For every macro, a separate test case .ipp file has to be written and 
then tested for every compiler. Given the number of new C++0x features, 
the Boost macros will become unmanageable if they are too fine grained.

--Beman