Re: [boost] Use of deprecated macros in Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] Use of deprecated macros in Boost
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-13 10:37:23

On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>> Marshall Clow wrote:
>> > On Dec 12, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Marshall Clow wrote:
>> > >> There's a full list at:
>> > >> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/config/doc/html/boost_config/boost_macro_reference.html#boost_config.boost_macro_reference.boost_deprecated_macros
>> > >
>> > > This list doesn't appear to be complete; it's missing, for example, > > BOOST_HAS_RVALUE_REFS.
>> >
>> > I haven't touched any of the BOOST_HAS macros - they should be > unchanged.
>> >
>> > However, I just added BOOST_HAS_RVALUE_REFS to the docs. (r 81878)
>> >
>> > In an ideal world, I think that macro should be named > BOOST_HAS_CXX11_RVALUE_REFERENCES or (even better) > !defined(BOOST_NO_CXX11_RVALUE_REFERENCES), but not today.
>> 
>> There are two more such macros, as far as I can see: BOOST_HAS_STATIC_ASSERT and BOOST_HAS_VARIADIC_TMPL.
> 
> Do you want these cleaned up from the SmartPtr library for this release, by the way? There's still time. 

If you have time, that would be great.
I don't think we can get all uses of them out before we hit code freeze, but there aren't that many uses of those macros (SmartPtr and Heap, mostly).

-- Marshall

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