Re: [boost] [integer] Recent changes introduced failures on many platforms

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-22 08:22:06

On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Markus Schöpflin wrote:

> Daryle Walker wrote:
>> I wonder if my compiler is too permissive in ignoring the  
>> constant, or the others are too strict in interpreting it.  Which  
>> compilers are affected?  (I'm using Apple's special GCC 4.0.1, Mac  
>> OS X 10.4 PowerPC.)  This is on the trunk, right?  I never  
>> intended this to go into the current release branch.
>
> Just have a look at http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/ 
> developer/integer.html, I think most of the failures for  
> integer_mask_test are somehow caused by this.

Some of the compilers had weird errors reading in the preprocessor  
marker '#' as regular code.  I suspect that some compilers don't like  
preprocessor selection within a macro-function call, which is what  
I'm doing.  I'll fix that first and we'll see what happens.

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