Re: [Boost-users] Can not compile a program that uses typeof package by gcc?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Can not compile a program that uses typeof package by gcc?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-20 12:33:55

AMDG

Peng Yu wrote:
>> You need to use BOOST_TYPEOF_TPL.
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/typeof/refe.html#typeof.typo.
>> Some compilers can handle this (I just tried it on msvc 9.0), but I strongly
>> advise using multiply_traits as defined above for portability.
>>     
>
> Does this mean the error that I saw is not due to a GCC bug? Or it is
> due to a GCC bug, but most other compilers would have the same bug so
> that I have to use your way as a walkaround?
>   

It is due to a gcc bug, but other compilers have their own bugs.
By portability, I meant practical portability, in so far as using 
multiply_traits
works on a lot more compilers.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe