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Hi,

I am getting this error message, when using boost::tuple:

include\boost\tuple\detail\tuple_basic.hpp(373) : error C2039: 'tail' : is not a member of 'boost::tuples::cons' 1> with 1> [ 1> HT=UTX::DB::nulled_type<unsigned char>, 1> TT=boost::tuples::null_type 1> ]

The referred line is the templated constructor of the non-specialised struct cons:

template cons( const cons& u ) : head(u.head), tail(u.tail) {}

So it seems that somehow the non-specialised method is called for the specialised template instantiation. Has anybody seen something like this?

Yes.

Is there a way to circumvent it?

With me it happened because the compiler was instantiating (unintended) stuff where the tuple was too short. You could try using enable_if on a very general signature instead of specialisation to prevent the compiler 'looking into' stuff. IOW Before: template <int N> struct my; template <> struct my<1>{...}; After: template struct my; // <--- for boost::enable_if template <int N> struct my ::type> {...}; HTH regards Andy Little