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

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-04 03:27:28

Daryle,

we still should come to a decision regarding this issue. Can't we just make 
the change and check if there are any new test failures caused by it?

Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Daryle Walker wrote:
> 
>> What happens on systems, like mine, that already have sufficient 
>> recursive depth?  Will specifying a maximum lower that the default 
>> actually lower the setting?  If so, then this addition could be 
>> dangerous.
> 
> If your toolset supports setting the recursion depth (gcc, qcc, acc, and 
> hp_cxx at the moment), it will be set to the value specified. So yes, it 
> might lower the default setting.
> 
> But why should this be dangerous? The recursion depth needed to compile 
> a program is independent of the toolset, isn't it? So if for a given 
> compiler a value lower than the default value is used, there should be 
> no harm.
> 
> Markus