Re: [Boost-build] intel-win issues

From: Jürgen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-05 03:35:41

Hi ! 

Am Middeweken 05 April 2006, 09:17 schrieb Vladimir Prus:
> Hi,
> until today, intel-win.jam passed a number of frontend options to compiler,
> namely:
>
>            -Qoption,cpp,--const_string_literals
>            -Qoption,cpp,--new_for_init
>            -Qoption,cpp,--no_implicit_typename
>            -Qoption,cpp,--no_friend_injection
>            -Qoption,cpp,--no_microsoft_bugs
>
> When trying to run regression tests with Intel-Win 9.0, Stefan Slapeta run
> into internal compiler errors. Removing the above options fixes that.
>
> They were added by Jurgen's suggestion, who said they disable "microsoft
> bug emulation", IIRC. On the other hand, Stefan said this:

Yes. Thomas Witt figured those out :-) The last intel compiler used by us were 
6.0 and 7.0 AFAICT.

>    -Qoption,cpp,--const_string_literals ... that should be the case anyway
>    -Qoption,cpp,--new_for_init ... why? there's a documented option for
> this -Qoption,cpp,--no_implicit_typename ... same as (1)
>    -Qoption,cpp,--no_friend_injection ... why?????
>    -Qoption,cpp,--no_microsoft_bugs ... that's very dangerous as intel have
>       their own mode for microsoft compatibility. the std library would
>       compile without that

Well, intel 6.0 was bug-compatible with msvc-6.0 by _default_, so those 
switches were needed to enable the full power of the EDG-Frontend ;-))
As msvc 7.1 and 8.0 are more standard compliant, it might be the reverse right 
now ;-)) and EDG is running with all features enabled by default...

> I'm not an expert with Intel compiler, so have no idea what options are
> really necessary at the moment. Can somebody comment?

I'd suggest to keep this options for intel < 9.0 (or 8.0) until someone with 
more knowledge comes with a better solution.

Just what I remember :-))

Yours,

Jürgen

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