Re: [Boost-users] Ugly warnings from BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-26 16:53:44

John Maddock wrote:
>>...
>> As you can see, it fails at line 3 as it should, while not complaining
>> about line 2. It will not complain about any old-style-cast either. So
>> the test was completely successful.
> 
> Hardly that successful: those error messages are awful!  The whole point of 
> BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT is to provide semi-readable error messages - at least so 
> that you know it's a static assertion failure and not some other issue 
> that's the problem.
> 
> I'll have another look at this when I have a chance.

static_assert seems to be one of the first C++0x features compilers are 
implementing. Maybe we should be working on a transition plan for 
BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT. Or do you already have a plan and I'm just behind 
the times?

--Beman