Re: [Boost-users] Better debugger support for boost::optional with VS2005 compiler

From: Daniel Krügler (dsp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-03 11:15:16

Michael Fawcett wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:58 AM, Daniel Krügler <dsp_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> I would like to thank the boost developers for their great
>> contributions (where boost::optional is only one of them) and
>> I hope you can even more enjoy boost::optional with this trick.
>> Unfortunately I have not found similar solutions for other
>> compilers yet, e.g for gcc, which probably is due to my lack
>> of experience with them but I would appreciate if someone else
>> publishes them, too.
> 
> 
> Daniel, please see
> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/DebuggerVisualizers and perhaps
> contact Filip.  He has made visualizers for other Boost libraries, and
> is maintaining the Wiki page for that effort.
> 
> Great work!

Thanks Michael and also thanks for your link - I wasn't aware of this 
project. I submitted the ticket #1666 (unfortunately I overlooked that
this is a bug ticket ;-) to the project, proposing this addition (I
checked that it did not yet exist there)

- Daniel