Re: [Boost-users] signals disconnect based on equivalent slots

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-17 07:34:38

James Burgess wrote:
> This works on gcc3.3 and gcc4.0 (OSX) but doesn't compile on vc8.0
> I'm wondering whether it should and I've just messed up somewhere
> installing boost 1.33 or vc8 (VS 2005). I noted that the regression
> test does not perform this form of disconnect, is that the manual
> telling me this isn't supported? I get a very similar error if I try
> a functor (using bind) rather than example below ~ "can't convert to
> 'const int'". There's some comments in signal_template.hpp that
> indicate vc 6.0 and 7.0 have problems with this, maybe that #ifdef
> needs to include vc8?

The version check in signal_template.hpp is wrong, it says 0x1700 when it 
actually seems to mean 1300. VC8 is 1400, so disconnects of this form are 
disabled on it. This appears to be a bug and I already reported it on the 
developer list.