Re: [Boost-users] [Fwd: is_pod newbie question]

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-23 05:03:03

Bruno Lalande wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> That could be a bit dangerous.
>> is_pod can given different result with different compilers.
> 
> I thought that is_pod and all other Boost.TypeTraits metafunctions
> were much more reliable than what you say. 

 From the is_pod documentation:

"Without some (as yet unspecified) help from the compiler, ispod will never report that a class or 
struct is a POD; this is always safe, if possibly sub-optimal. Currently (May 2005) only MWCW 9 and 
Visual C++ 8 have the necessary compiler-_intrinsics."

--Johan