[Boost-users] Re: Re: Compilers compliance and boost.

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-20 08:13:06

"Mauricio Gomes" <mg_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:f05c2340fb102993b7c3358e25aa340e_at_pensardigital.com...
> That's much better and it is a relief ! Thanks Aleksey.
> Markus suggestion is good, I've made an honest effort but I really  could 
> not find the page.
>
> If you don't mind I still have one more question:
> Do the code still needs a lot of workarounds for compilers problems or 
> the latest versions of the compilers have good compliance ?
> 1.32 report shows a good situation but I don't know if it reflects good 
> compilers compliance or boost developers heroic efforts to workaround 
> problems.

The situation with compilers is much better than it used to be.  Current 
versions of Comeau, GCC, Intel, Metrowerks, and Microsoft all do very well 
with Boost and other standard compliant code. Sun says their next release 
will also work well with Boost. OTOH, Borland seems to have abandoned C++.

--Beman