Re: [Boost-users] BOOST_NO_IS_ABSTRACT defined for SunPRO CC?

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-15 13:56:39

John Maddock wrote:
> Sohail Somani wrote:
>   
>>> Sohail Somani wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In the upgrade to boost 1.34.1, I noticed that the sunpro_cc.hpp
>>>> config file now defines BOOST_NO_IS_ABSTRACT for the latest
>>>> compiler. This
>>>> affects serialization code that used to work with 1.33.1.
>>>>
>>>> The relevant change is here:
>>>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/32005
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering, why was this change made since it seems to work?
>>>> There is
>>>> no ticket referenced in the commit.
>>>>         
> There's no ticket because it's a two year old change: long before the move 
> to TRAC :-(  I don't have access to the Sunpro compiler, so this would have 
> been in response to a user report, or a regression failure somewhere.  Sun's 
> compiler has made a lot of progress recently, so it's quite possible this is 
> no longer needed.
>   
Well looking at the regressions (http://preview.tinyurl.com/33pgw7) it 
seems that it is still an issue. Dangerous at that. Returns true when 
expecting false... Perhaps its bullet biting time.
>>> Is boost/config/user.hpp a good place to override this?
>>>       
>
> Yep, define BOOST_NO_COMPILER_CONFIG, and then add any compiler macros you 
> do still need.
>   
Ok I suppose this is doable #ifdef __SUNPRO_CC ... #define 
BOOST_NO_COMPILER_CONFIG ... blah blah blah ...

Thanks John!

Sohail