Re: [Boost-users] BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-11 08:36:38

João Abecasis <jpabecasis_at_[hidden]> writes:

> John Maddock wrote:
>> Sigh... It's very compiler specific I'm afraid, we can 
>> STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE into the message but that's about it at present.
>
> Actually I've implemented an alternative STATIC_ASSERT macro that let's 
> one add two identifiers to better describe the error. One would be a 
> title and the other a more descriptive message.
>
> The original motivation for this was to diagnose a missing include file 
> for Phoenix! One would get an error message containing
>
>      missing_include::boost_spirit_phoenix_comma_hpp
>
> when trying to use the comma operator without the above include.
>

Have you considered using the MPL static assertion macros?  They
usually generate much better error messages than those you get from
BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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