Re: [boost] [config] gcc and <unordered_set> vs <ext/hash_set>

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] gcc and <unordered_set> vs <ext/hash_set>
From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-16 14:56:37

Hi John !

On Tuesday 16 December 2008, John Maddock wrote:
> Folks, Dave A. asked for a config macro to detect the presence of std
> conforming <unordered_set> and <unordered_map>.

This would be great.

> However, I've run into an unexpected issue: it appears that with
> gcc-4.3.x you cannot include both <unordered_set> and <ext/hash_set>
> as attempting to do so leads to endless errors inside the <ext/*>
> headers :-(
>
> Including either one of the headers is just fine though.

But the <unordered_*> headers are only available with -std=c++0x. 

> So... how should we handled this?  Not define BOOST_HAS_HASH when
> <unordered_set> *is* available?

We don't use <hash_*> at the moment, so im +-0 with this idea.

> As far as I can tell the only library effected by this change would
> be Boost.Serialization which would lose has_set support in gcc's
> c++0x mode. How do folks feel about that?

I remember that Dave was trying to eliminate the warnings from the BGL. 
<hash_set> is used in boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp, too.
I've disabled them for my project with BOOST_NO_HASH. 
I don't care about them, but there may be projects around using them.

A short grep finds:
./boost/pending/container_traits.hpp:25:#    include <hash_set>
./boost/pending/container_traits.hpp:30:#    include <hash_map>
./boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp:27:#    include <hash_set>

Yours,

Jürgen
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