[Boost-users] Compilation problem with boost on SunCC (Forte 6.2 & 8)

From: Puverle, Tomas (IT) (Tomas.Puverle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-05 04:49:52

A repost, since no answer to my previous mail.

> > Please find attached a small program and a the resulting 
> compilation 
> > errors on SunCC.
> > This occurs in iterator_facade.hpp, operator != (), calling to 
> > interator_core_access::equal. I have tracked this down to the 
> > following problem:
> > 
> > f(mpl::true_);
> > f(mpl::false_);
> > 
> > f(is_convertible<>()); //will not work
> > 
> > is_convertible<> derives from mpl::bool<>, however it seems 
> that a bug 
> > in the compiler prevents it from converting to 
> mpl::true_/mpl::false_ 
> > in the above scenario (and in the program attached)
> > 
> > A workaround for this is to change it to the following:
> > 
> > f(mpl::true_);
> > f(mpl::false_);
> > 
> > f(mpl::bool_<is_convertible<>::value>());
> > 
> > Presumably this will be present in other places but this is 
> the only 
> > one our developers have hit so far.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Tom 
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