Re: [Boost-users] boost/type_traits/has_new_operator.hpp and NVCC

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost/type_traits/has_new_operator.hpp and NVCC
From: Denis Taniguchi (taniguchi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-29 16:14:55

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 16:53 +0100, joel falcou wrote:
> Denis Taniguchi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to compile boost::numeric::ublas with NVCC and I get the
> > following errors:
> >
> > /usr/local/include/boost/type_traits/has_new_operator.hpp:28: error: `&'
> > cannot appear in a constant-expression
> > /usr/local/include/boost/type_traits/has_new_operator.hpp:28: error:
> > template argument 2 is invalid
> >
> > This is related to #3919 and #3980 in a effort to make NVCC work with
> > boost.
> > Is there a known workaround so that I could tweak
> > boost/config/compiler/nvcc.hpp?
> > I'm using trunk under linux with the following piece of code:
> >   
> I will give it a look monday when I have acces to our GPU machine.
> I think it's related to nvcc support for template, especially SFINAE.
> 
Removing boost/type_traits/has_new_operator.hpp in type_traits.hpp
solved the problem (obviously).

Index: type_traits.hpp
===================================================================
--- type_traits.hpp	(revision 60920)
+++ type_traits.hpp	(working copy)
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #include "boost/type_traits/add_reference.hpp"
 #include "boost/type_traits/add_volatile.hpp"
 #include "boost/type_traits/alignment_of.hpp"
-#ifndef __BORLANDC__
+#if !defined(__BORLANDC__) && !defined(__CUDACC__) 
 #include "boost/type_traits/has_new_operator.hpp"
 #endif
 #include "boost/type_traits/has_nothrow_assign.hpp"