I totally forgot about broken typename in bcc. It's fixed in attached any.hpp.
Alexander Nasonov writes:
Hello Mikhail, I've updated your patch to properly support T volatile x; any a(x);
I forgot to mention that the original version has small problem with any_cast to const type. If any stores T and you cast it to T const you're trying this sequence of static_casts: holder<T>* -> (in ctor) -> placeholder* -> (in any_cast) -> holder<T const>* Obviously, it's not getting back to original holder<T> type.
It has been tested under Gentoo Linux on g++ 3.3.4 (hardened) and Intel 8.0 with and without BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION.
Now tested on borland 5.5.1 and on VC++ 7.1 (free command line tool). Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
Thanks! Do you know if/when this patch will be added? (I notified Kevlin but he hasn't responded yet.)
Let's wait for his reply. -- Alexander Nasonov