Re: On Boost and modules

From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-09 19:27:04

[STL]
> For static linking, where there is no binary isolation, we have a pre-existing problem,
> unrelated to modules, in that we're dragging in ordinary `boost::` symbols
> which raises the specter of ODR violations.

[Matt Borland]
> I believe it was Casey (or someone from your team) that asked us about allowing
> the namespace for those functions to be configured via macro. Let me know if
> that's something we need to look at again to fix those issues.

Yeah, this is still tracked by the open issue https://github.com/boostorg/math/issues/769 . We haven't asked about it recently since it hasn't been actively causing problems, but we'd use such a macro if support for it were added.

Thanks!
STL