Re: [Boost-users] How to identify Boost libraries which support eVC++compiler

From: Mateusz £oskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-29 11:04:00

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 11:45 am, John Maddock wrote:
>> Unfortunately, uncommenting that check solved the problem but
>> partially. As my next testes, I tried to use Boost.Any and I see
>> there are compilere related checks still present.
>> When I include the any.hpp
>> #include <boost/any.hpp>
>> and I'm getting this error message (I have to confess that it's hard
>> for me to decipher it :-))
>>
>> c:\boost\include\boost-1_33_1\boost\mpl\aux_\yes_no.hpp(42) : error
>> C2265: '<Unknown>' : reference to a zero-sized array is illegal
>>         c:\boost\include\boost-1_33_1\boost\mpl\aux_\yes_no.hpp(47) :
>> see reference to class template instantiation
>> 'boost::mpl::aux::weighted_tag<n>' being compiled
>> c:\boost\include\boost-1_33_1\boost\type_traits\broken_compiler_spec.hpp(23)
>>> fatal error C1506: unrecoverable block scoping error
>>
>> The message above relates to the following check of compiler:
>>
>> #if !BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, == 1200)
>>     typedef char (&type)[n];
>> #else
>>
>
> This is a known issue: eVC++ bumps the version
> number up to 1201 or 1202 so
> a lot of version checks / workarounds don't work anymore.
>
> A large patch for this was added to mainline cvs, but it didn't make it in
> time for 1.33.1 (too big a patch)
>
> See http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/07/90101.php

I understand it now. Would you recommend to use CVS HEAD or I better
wait until the patch will be included in future release?

Cheers
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Mateusz £oskot
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