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Subject: Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-15 14:50:36


On 1/15/2015 1:39 PM, John Maddock wrote:
>>> You missed out the error message!
>>
>> Just warnings and no error message.
>>
>>> But again, does the current version
>>> have the same failure?
>>
>> The current version has similar failures. I don't see an error message
>> with the failures in either the current version or the version2 version
>> for gcc-3.4.5, just lots of warnings with "...failed gcc.compile.c++ ...
>> " messages. Are the type_traits tests set to fail if any warnings occur ?
>
> Ah yes, it has warnings-as-error turned on.

In that case, besides the warnings, gcc-3.4.5 compiles without error.

For Version2 the same results occur except that gcc-3.4.5 complains:

mpl_interop_test1.cpp:30:2: no newline at end of file

for each of the mpl_interop_test source files.

>
>>> There are out of date mentions in the docs - it all needs a *lot* of
>>> revising.
>>
>> I could not find any mention of compiler requirements in the type_traits
>> docs, much less out of date mentions, other than in the topic "Support
>> for Compiler Intrinsics".
>
> Each trait should list what compiler features it requires for correct
> functionality.

OK. I was looking more for "type_traits should work with xxx, yyy, zzz
compilers" etc but I understand this would be difficult to keep up to date.


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