Re: PC-Lint reports errors for VC6-specific implementation in is_same.hpp

From: stefan_felkel2000 (Stefan.Felkel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-20 04:13:53

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], David Abrahams <dave_at_b...> wrote:
> This is an odd request, since Visual Studio .NET 2003 never compiles
> that part of the file as BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION is
> not defined for VC7.1.  To make PC-Lint happy I was going to check 
in
> a patch, but then it occurred to me: this code *is* nonconforming, 
so
> a lint tool *should* complain when it's encountered.  So I guess the
> question is: why is your PC-Lint not configured to emulate your 
VC7.1
> compiler?  If it was, it would never see that code either.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> www.boost-consulting.com

Sorry,

it was my fault - _MSC_VER was 1300 instead of 1310 and so 
BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION was defined.

Stefan Felkel