Re: [Boost-testing] all serialization tests failing with msvc 8.0+

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-06 06:22:01

Richard Webb wrote:
>>   * BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT is now an intrinsic for some Visual C++
>> compilers
>>   * Some other boost header defines BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT
>>   * That interferes with your BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT
>>
>
> I posted about this yesterday. See
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/173362
>
> The sandia gcc 4.3.0 tests seem to be failing in the same place as
> well.

Ah, this may be my fault: several compilers support the __is_abstract 
intrinsic which I hooked up in type_traits with the BOOST_IS_ABSTRACT macro. 
I hadn't realised the macro was in use somewhere else - what's your use case 
for this?

John.