Re: [Boost-testing] [date-time][OSL4] testfacet(dll) / sun-5.8

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-03 09:44:27

On Jul 3, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Jeff Garland wrote:

> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> Steve,
>> 	I'm CC'ing you on this discussion because it looks like a name   
>> mangling bug in the latest Sun C++ compiler. The linker produces  
>> this  error message:
>>
>> ...snip detail...
> >
>> The problem is that the compiler is putting "const" into the  
>> mangled  name for the definition, but it shouldn't be there.
>> Jeff, it looks like you can work around this bug by removing  
>> "const"  from "const int ele" in src/gregorian/date_generators.cpp.
>
> Thanks for the analysis Doug. It looks like there is actually a  
> mismatch between the declaration in boost/date_time/ 
> date_generators.hpp and the .cpp
>
>    //date_generators.hpp
>   //! Returns nth arg as string. 1 -> "first", 2 -> "second", max  
> is 5.
>   BOOST_DATE_TIME_DECL const char* nth_as_str(int n);
>
>    //date_generators.cpp
>   BOOST_DATE_TIME_DECL const char* nth_as_str(const int ele)
>
>
> I'm surprised that's working on any compilers -- looks like the  
> other compilers are being a bit lax on signature matching.  I'm  
> fixing now.

IIRC, top-level cv-qualifiers on argument types are dropped, so I  
believe your code is correct. It just happens to poke at one  
particular corner case.

        Doug