Re: [boost] Deprecate BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT?

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-24 09:34:14

AMDG

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> This is a sample error report from BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT:
>
> ./assert1.cpp: In instantiation of ‘A<-0x00000000000000005>’:
> ./assert1.cpp:12:   instantiated from here
> ./assert1.cpp:6: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete 
> type ‘boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE<false>’
>
> And this is what BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION produces:
>
> ./assert2.cpp: In instantiation of ‘A<-0x00000000000000005>’:
> ./assert2.cpp:12:   instantiated from here
> ./assert2.cpp:6: error: no matching function for call to 
> ‘assertion_failed(mpl_::failed************ 
> mpl_::assert_relation<greater, -0x00000000000000005l, 0l>::************)’
>
> Honestly, I don't see much difference except that, as it was noted, 
> there are hints to the problem source in the latter output. Upper-case 
> STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE do highlight error just as well as those 
> asterixes.

If -0x00000000000000005l and 0l are the result of template 
metaprogramming rather than hard coded,
the BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT message is /much/ less helpful, IMO.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe