Re: [boost] [1.43][beta] Fix for MPL under gcc 4.5

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.43][beta] Fix for MPL under gcc 4.5
From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-21 08:31:46

Thomas Klimpel skrev:
> Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>> I in a perfect world, the GCC developers would actually test their
>> compiler on Boost before releasing it, and report back to us that we
>> have invalid code, or fix the compiler.
>>
>> What's stopping them? Or any compiler vendor for that sake?
> 
> See my answer to the opposite question: <http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/04/164678.php>

How can that possibly answer my question? :-)

> 
> Neither msvc-10.0 nor gcc-4.5 are among the compilers that are tested for the release branch <http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html> for 1.43. So I guess it is a safe assumption that compatibility with msvc-10.0 or gcc-4.5 is not a release criteria for 1.43.
> 
> 
> Making 1.44 more compatible with gcc-4.5 and MSVC-10 might be a good idea, but the first step in this direction should be to add msvc-10.0 and gcc-4.5
> to the regression tests for the release branch. And no, I won't donate machine time for these regression tests.

Well, my point was that we might be able to help eachother out. I think 
Boost is well-known for presenting code that is quite challenging for 
compilers, and so it seems like Boost itself would be a good test-suite 
for the compiler vendors.

-Thorsten