Re: boost::function and VC6 compile failure

From: Vincent Finn (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-30 06:52:45

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> Vincent Finn wrote:
> 
>>I am using the function classes in VC6 and have hit a problem
>>
>>The problem is that the compiler can't allocate enough space to build
>>(The error mesages are at the bottom)
>>Nomally you use the /ZmXXX compiler flag to make this bigger
>>but that doesn't work in this case
>>
>>Is there a simple workaround?
> 
> The simplest one is to split a single translation unit into several ones, if
> it's possible.

Unfortunately I can't do that

> 
> If it's not, or of this still doesn't help, and you are sure that you are
> _not_ using the type_traits type transformation templates
> (http://www.boost.org/libs/type_traits/index.htm#transformations), then you
> can define (a project wise) BOOST_TT_NO_BROKEN_COMPILER_SPEC macro and see
> how this one works out.
> 
> Note that for the latter you'll need the latest CVS version of type_traits
> library, and that some of the other boost libraries might rely on things
> like 'remove_pointer' working properly, so depending on that this might or
> might not be a viable option.

I tried to use CVS and couldn't get it to connect (never used it before)
Since there is no gaurantee that the problem will be fixed I can't be 
bothered spending anymore time playing with TortoiseCVS to get it 
working so I have abandoned boost::function and gone back to function 
pointers

Oh well :-(

        Thanks anyway, Vin