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Subject: Re: [boost] [config] [regression] Regression test failures due to compiler bugs -- your advice needed
From: Andrzej Krzemienski (akrzemi1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-21 14:43:57


2015-01-21 16:41 GMT+01:00 Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]>:

> Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:
>
>> A number of tests of Boost.Optional fail. (see here:
>> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/optional.html)
>> These are the failures in optional<T&> (optional references), because
>> quite a lot of compilers implement reference binding in a
>> non-standard-conforming manner. (For details of these bugs see here:
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/optional/doc/
>> html/boost_optional/dependencies_and_portability/
>> optional_reference_binding.html
>> ).
>>
>
> On the doc page, you state that these bugs are present in all MSVC
> versions, but on the tests page, I only see one failure, with msvc-10.0,
> everything else is green (or, in some cases, missing.)
>

You are right. I need to check if I didn't loose some tests. But back to my
original request, did what I say makes sense?


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