function and BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_BASE_LOOKUP

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-27 05:54:40

Doug,

I've putting together some test cases for the new macros that function
added to config.hpp: and I'm struggling to understand
BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_BASE_LOOKUP.

First off, this is defined for Borland compilers, but all the function
tests compile OK with bc 5.51: am I missing something here?

Secondly, you do realise that members of template base classes are not
visible to derived classes anyway - you have to use either:

base_type::member_name

(which breaks VC6), or use:

this->member_name

which seems to work everywhere.

If I've misunderstood the intent of this macro (quite likely!), apologies.

- John Maddock
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/