Re: [boost] type_with_alignment.hpp / alignment_of.hpp too heavy

Subject: Re: [boost] type_with_alignment.hpp / alignment_of.hpp too heavy
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-03 09:05:06

on Thu Oct 02 2008, "Christian Holmquist" <c.holmquist-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/10/1 Emil Dotchevski <emil_at_[hidden]>
>
>>
>> So, at least I need to include alignment_of.hpp which is so heavy it
>> practically nullifies my efforts to pimpl the U type away in the cpp.
>>
>
>
> Have a look at boost/intrusive/detail/mpl.hpp, there's a alignment_of with
> the following comment
>
> //boost::alignment_of yields to 10K lines of preprocessed code, so we
> //need an alternative
>
> Since it's in detail, maybe it's safe to check with the author (Ion?)
> first..

I would prefer to fix this dependency problem.  AFAICT it  only exists
for VC6/7 support of mpl lambda expressions with boost type traits.  Is
this the only trait that exhibits that level of dependency?

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