[Boost-commit] svn:boost r39131 - in trunk: libs/typeof/doc status

From: peder.holt_at_[hidden]
Date: 2007-09-05 15:52:20

Author: burbelgruff
Date: 2007-09-05 15:52:18 EDT (Wed, 05 Sep 2007)
New Revision: 39131
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/39131

Log:
boost.typeof now supports native typeof for VC8.0
Text files modified: 
   trunk/libs/typeof/doc/typeof.qbk          |    10 ++++++----                              
   trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml |     2 --                                      
   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Modified: trunk/libs/typeof/doc/typeof.qbk
==============================================================================
--- trunk/libs/typeof/doc/typeof.qbk	(original)
+++ trunk/libs/typeof/doc/typeof.qbk	2007-09-05 15:52:18 EDT (Wed, 05 Sep 2007)
@@ -644,12 +644,14 @@
     //Use the base class to access the type.
     typedef typeof_access::id2type::type type; 
  
-This method has also been adapted to VC7.0, where the nested class 
+Peder Holt adapted this method to VC7.0, where the nested class 
 is a template class that is specialized in the derived class. 
-The loopholes have been fixed in VC8.0 though, so on this compiler 
-this method doesn't work.
+
+In VC8.0, it seemed that all the bug-featire had been fixed, but
+Steven Watanabe managed to implement a more rigorous version of the VC7.0 fix that
+enables 'typeof' to be supported 'natively' here as well.
  
-For this and many other compilers neither native `typeof` support 
+For many other compilers neither native `typeof` support 
 nor the trick described above is an option.  For such compilers  
 the emulation method is the only way of implementing `typeof`.
 

Modified: trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml	(original)
+++ trunk/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml	2007-09-05 15:52:18 EDT (Wed, 05 Sep 2007)
@@ -2601,8 +2601,6 @@
         <test name="*_native" category="Native compiler support">
             <mark-failure>
                 <toolset name="acc"/>
-                <toolset name="vc-8_0*"/>
-                <toolset name="msvc-8.0*"/>
                 <toolset name="intel-vc71-win*"/>
                 <toolset name="intel-vc8-win*"/>
                 <toolset name="como-4_3_3-vc7_1"/>