Re: [boost] [test] Still having issues

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] Still having issues
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-13 11:23:24

Chaps, please tone it down.  Taking out your frustration on the list in 
public serves no purpose.

Regards, John.

>> On 13/10/2011 04:04, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>> > Mathias Gaunard<mathias.gaunard<at>  ens-lyon.org>  writes:
>> >
>> >> Just rename _invalid_parameter_handler to something else.
>> >> As the error message says, that name is already defined in some Visual
>> >> Studio headers.
>> >
>> > Really!? Such a simple solution. How come I never figured it out.
>> >
>> >> Names that start with an underscore in the global namespace are 
>> >> reserved
>> >> by the implementation.
>> >
>> > Maybe you should first look why this line was put there in a first 
>> > place.
>>
>> I don't care why your library does this, it is not my problem.
>
> Why are you commenting in this thread in this case?
>
>> This is a major annoyance.
>
> I on my side might be annoyed that you comment without even trying to 
> understand
> what the problem is.
>
>> You say you don't understand the error message, I tell you what it means.
>> Clearly if something is already defined in a header, you can't redefine 
>> it.
>
> You on the other hand do not know what you are talking about. This line 
> was
> added specifically because this symbols was *absent* in msvc headers (some
> version of msvc specifically). It can't be anything else. It should be 
> this
> particular symbol. Named in this particular way. Why this hack get's 
> applied to
> this platform/compiler combination - that's the question. If you have 
> anything
> to comment on actual issue feel free to weight in.
>
>> It could be that your header only works if it's included *before*
>> stdlib.h. In which case, that's very fragile.
>
> You did not even bothered to see that this is inside of implementation, 
> not in
> header.
>
> Gennadiy
>
>
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