Re: [boost] [shared_ptr] [intel] Compile Errors with '#include <atomic>'

Subject: Re: [boost] [shared_ptr] [intel] Compile Errors with '#include <atomic>'
From: Joshua Boyce (raptorfactor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-20 15:22:19

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Joshua Boyce <raptorfactor_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> Intel's standard library headers are disgusting and are committing the
> cardinal sin of defining macros which may interfere with user code (which
> in this case they have).
>
> The problem is simple to repro:
>
> #include <atomic>
> #include <boost/shared_ptr>
> int main() { }
>
> The problem has been reported previously, but even in the latest version
> of the compiler (created and released well after the bug report) the
> problem seems to remain:
> http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/showpost.php?p=160114
>
> Here is a patch which I have used locally to successfully work around the
> problem, but I get the feeling that there is a better solution I'm
> overlooking...
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74751/cpp/boost/patches/boost-shared_ptr-intel-fix-20120421-0447.patch
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem who has come up with a better
> solution? Alternatively, if this is as good as it's going to get (maybe
> using a BOOST_WORKAROUND would be better so it can be disabled when/if the
> issue is fixed), would anybody be able to apply this to trunk?
>
> Thanks.
>

Ugh, it seems that Boost.Thread is also affected by this. Patch for
future.hpp (disgusting like the last one, will probably need to be
rewritten/cleaned up):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74751/cpp/boost/patches/boost-future-intel-fix-20120421-0519.patch

At last, my project finally builds with Intel C++.