Re: [boost] [RFC] Boost library name mangling and Microsoft's 'secure STL' feature.

Subject: Re: [boost] [RFC] Boost library name mangling and Microsoft's 'secure STL' feature.
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-03 17:55:18

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>   There have been requests to make Boost Build cleanly support 
> Microsoft's 'secure STL'/'checked iterators' feature.

Two alternatives...

Use the existing "runtime-debugging" feature to set the SCL_SECURE 
define. This has the advantage that the default behavior is the current 
behavior and there's no new feature name to fret about.

Name the new feature "runtime-iterator-debugging", with values "off" and 
"checked". Set it to default to "off" for variant=release or 
variant=profile, and "checked" for variant=debug. This does change the 
current behavior, but in a less jarring way. It also is a generic but 
clear name which covers other STD implementations that have such 
iterators. It also allows for adding other kinds of iterator debugging 
if other STDs implement then now or in the future.

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