Re: [Boost-users] [wave] bug report for wave

From: Andreas Sæbjørnsen (andreas.saebjoernsen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-19 18:04:34

Thanks. I look forward to testing it. :)

Regards
Andreas

On 11/19/05, Hartmut Kaiser <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>
> Andreas Sæbjørnsen wrote:
>
> > I think the best soulution would be like you suggested to add
> > the '$' character to the valid basic source character set to
> > allow identifiers containeing a $. I therefore tested out how
> > different major compilers and versions of these compilers
> > handle this. The following compilers and versions of the
> > compilers allow a '$' character within the identifiers (of macros):
> >
> > gcc 2.95, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3.3, 3.4.3 and 4.0.2 icc (intel c
> > compiler) 8.0, 8.1
> >
> > I would corroborate for the fact that it seems like there is
> > some traction for allowing '$' characters within identifiers
> > in major compiler preprocessors.
> >
> > I have not been able to reproduce the error you got with GCC
> > or with any other compiler . Which compiler and version did
> > you use when you got your error message?
>
> I agree with you, that most (if not all) of the existing compilers allow
> '$'
> to be used in identifiers. So I decided to (optionally) include this
> behaviour into Wave as well (and I made it the default behaviour). To
> maintain the possibility of having a strictly Standards conforming
> preprocessor it is possible now to configure the Wave library by defining
> the BOOST_WAVE_USE_STRICT_LEXER constant during compilation, which will
> revert to the previous behaviour.
>
> HTH
> Regards Hartmut
>
>
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