On 4/5/2012 10:50 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
on Thu Apr 05 2012, Paul Mensonides
wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:10:10 -0400, Dave Abrahams wrote:
Paul, how are compilers doing these days? Is the use of Chaos reasonably portable in practice to recent compilers, or are the preprocessors still too badly broken?
I don't regularly use any of them except GCC (which is good), so I can't say for sure. However, VC is as bad as always, and since that's a pretty "important" compiler for portable code...
<fumes> Bah! What's it going to take to get those guys to fix their preprocessor?! </fumes>
<rant> When one submits an obvious bug on the Microsoft bug reporting page regarding their C++ preprocessor their answer is an almost immediate "won't fix". If Stan Lippman and/or Herb Sutter are still involved in the Microsoft C++ development team, and they can personally be approached by C++ programmers who know them regarding the VC++ preprocessor, I believe it would do much more good in fixing the VC++ preprocessor than all the bug reports to Microsoft ever will. </rant>