Re: [ublas] uBLAS and the standard

From: Paul C. Leopardi (paul.leopardi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-25 19:03:56

Hi Dima,
My reply is below.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Sorkin Dima wrote:
> Hi.
>   I'm continuing with MIPSpro compilation
> of uBLAS based code, and additional flaw
> was found:
>   member classes (mainly iterator, const_iterator)
> are accessing private fields of their enclosing
> classes (vector,vector_range, vector_unary ... many more)
>
> They should be declared as friends, according
> to B.Stroustrup "The C++ prog lang" C.11.3.
>
> I don't know what the standard says, yet.

This is the subject of an issue. See
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/core5.htm#45
and
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/1999/n1186.pdf

Best, Paul