Re: [Boost-testing] Regressions: Are all this errors real?

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-13 23:49:54

On Jan 13, 2007, at 11:47 AM, John Maddock wrote:

> Roland Schwarz wrote:
>> concept_check:
>> ==============
>>
>> The test stl_concept_covering actually fails on _all_ platforms! So
>> what is this test for? Why does none care?
>
> I raised this last time we did a release :-(

It's more a test of the standard library implementation that a test  
of Boost, because it uses archetypes to check whether the STL  
algorithms can work with types that truly satisfy only the minimum  
behavior required by those algorithms. It's all corner cases in the  
standard library, so failures here don't really affect how Boost will  
work on that platform.

        Cheers,
        Doug