Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Possible bug in boost_1_28

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-11 05:46:05

> > This bug comes up when I try to include <boost/array.hpp> in certain
> > CodeWarrior projects.
> ...
> > Error: undefined identifier 'ptrdiff_t'
> ...
>
> I get this too when using Code Warrior for PlayStation2 with
> <boost/smart_ptr.hpp>.
>
> It appears that the compiler-supplied <cstddef> simply contains #include
> <stddef.h>, so ptrdiff_t is not getting defined in the std namespace.
Doing
> this:
>
>     namespace std{using ::ptrdiff_t;}
>     #include <boost/smart_ptr.hpp>
>
> fixes it, but I'm not sure that this is strictly allowed.
>
> If anybody knows a better fix, please let me know.

Maybe we need to define BOOST_NO_STDC_NAMESPACE for that combination?

John Maddock
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