Re: [Boost-testing] No endian.hpp support for VC compilers. What's the deal? [was serialization test status]

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-19 18:47:29

Goncalo N M de Carvalho wrote:
>>Which compilers/platforms does it not work for? I
>>can't fathom vc-* not 
>>being on the set of compilers tested for endian.hpp.
>>And those are some 
>>of the compilers failing portable_archive. Yet the
>>error from endian.hpp 
>>is the one showing. How could people not check
>>those?
> 
> Looking at endian.hpp (and my tests output) it looks
> for CPU type. In the case of VC8 the symbol
> _M_IX86 is defined for x86 processors and there is no
> such case in endian.hpp. Maybe that's the problem?

I've added that and the other still supported platforms for VC (_M_IA64 
and _M_ALPHA).

> I can't find an equivalent for the intel compiler...

On Windows it's the same as VC.

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