Re: HP, aCC and the standards

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While many compiler vendors strive to be able to compile boost, is this really a measure of Standard C++ conformance?

A pretty good one. That's why they use it as a test.

It may be true, but HP won't accept it. We help them a lot if we can point to a part of the standard and can show an "aCC -E" output and an "aCC -c" output and say: "this point is badly implemented, because it is not compiled, although the standard said it should".