Re: [Boost-users] type_traits, ublas and VC++7.0

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-24 17:09:21

Lorenzo Bolla wrote:
> I'm working with the boost::numeric::ublas library and I'm having some
> problems, but I'm posting here because I think the problem is due to 
> the type_traits library. In fact, with Visual C++ 7.0 this piece of 
> code does not compile, with the error C2529: "reference to reference 
> is illegal".
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> #include <boost/type_traits.hpp>
> #include <complex>
> 
> //typedef double value_t;
> typedef std::complex<double> value_t;
> 
> int main()
> {
> // reference to reference!!!
> boost::remove_reference<value_t&>::type const &a (value_t (0.));
> return 0;
> }
> 
> -----------------------------------
> 
> With value_t == double everything works fine.
> Any suggestions?

Adding

    BOOST_TT_BROKEN_COMPILER_SPEC(value_t)

after the typedef should take care of it. See the second paragraph in 
http://www.boost.org/libs/type_traits/index.html#transformations.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering