Re: [boost] [TR1][Hash] New failures?

Subject: Re: [boost] [TR1][Hash] New failures?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-24 11:50:46

> I think these are fixed on trunk now, I'll give it another day for
> more tests to run and then merge if it looks okay.
> 
> For the record, there were a couple of problems. One was an odd bug in
> Visual C++ 7.1/8 which I think I've worked around. Although I'm not
> sure exactly what triggered it.
> 
> The other problem was that the containers emulate C++0x std::pair
> constructors, which includes:
> 
>    template<class U, class... Args>
>    pair(U&& x, Args&&... args);
> 
> This is the best match for input_iterator_archetype's reference type.
> It converts the argument to key_type instead of value_type which
> caused the error. I've just removed support for the single argument
> version and I'll wait to see what the draft without concepts says
> (concepts would have fixed this). Gcc's version is defined to have at
> least two arguments so I guess this issue is well known.
> 
> The constructor should probably also be 'explicit', so that's another
> thing I'll look out for.

Thanks Daniel!  I appreciate your help in sorting those out,

Cheers, John.