[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #4104: Declaration prevents Visual Studio 2008 from auto-completing shared_ptr

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #4104: Declaration prevents Visual Studio 2008 from auto-completing shared_ptr
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-15 19:56:21

#4104: Declaration prevents Visual Studio 2008 from auto-completing shared_ptr
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 Reporter:  Edward Loper <edloper@…>             |       Owner:  emildotchevski
     Type:  Bugs                                 |      Status:  new           
Milestone:  Boost 1.43.0                         |   Component:  exception     
  Version:  Boost 1.42.0                         |    Severity:  Problem       
 Keywords:  shared_ptr Visual Studio             |  
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 A forward declaration for shared_ptr in boost/exception/exception.hpp
 confuses Visual Studio's Intellisense parser, preventing it from doing
 auto-completion for any boost::shared_ptr objects.  This can be fixed by
 replacing "<class>" with "<class T>" in the forward declaration (as shown
 in the attached patch file).

 Strictly speaking, this is not a bug in Boost, but in Visual Studio; but
 unless there's a good reason to use "<class>" in the forward declaration
 rather than "<class T>", this change would be very helpful to all Visual
 Studio users if you made this change.


 {{{
 --- boost_1_40_0-old/boost/exception/exception.hpp       2009-07-22
 16:55:50.000000000 -0400
 +++ boost_1_40_0-new/boost/exception/exception.hpp       2010-04-15
 15:27:39.213956500 -0400
 @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@

      class exception;

 -    template <class>
 +    template <class T>
      class shared_ptr;

      namespace
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4104>
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