Re: [boost] [1.53] request to merge lockfree (c++11 only)

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.53] request to merge lockfree (c++11 only)
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-17 06:36:19

hi daniel,

> You need to add the library to 'libs/libraries.htm' in the alphabetic
> and category lists. Categories are up to you, but I'd expect:
> containers, concurrent and maybe data structures. Link to
> 'libs/lockfree/index.html' - not 'doc/html/whatever'.

done

> Unfortunately the online inspect report is out of date, so I ran it
> locally and got this for lockfree:
> 
> |lockfree|
>   boost/lockfree/detail/freelist.hpp:
>     Boost macro deprecated in 1.51: BOOST_NO_DEFAULTED_FUNCTIONS
>   boost/lockfree/detail/tagged_ptr_dcas.hpp:
>     Boost macro deprecated in 1.51: BOOST_NO_DEFAULTED_FUNCTIONS
>   boost/lockfree/detail/tagged_ptr_ptrcompression.hpp:
>     Boost macro deprecated in 1.51: BOOST_NO_DEFAULTED_FUNCTIONS

done

> Since we know the library isn't going to work on any of the currently
> tested platforms, checking the test results seems pointless. There are
> a lot of failures, but if they're down to atomic not being ready, then
> I guess they're acceptable? I'd normally suggest marking up the
> failing test results in status/explicit-failures-markup.xml, but that
> might be counter-productive if they could be fixed in atomic. Failures
> due to boost dependencies are a real pain.

for the mingw/interprocess related failures, i might need some help:
there is a linking failure, but i don't know what to link to.

cheers, tim