Re: [boost] [config] [regression] Regression test failures due to compiler bugs -- your advice needed

2015-01-21 17:31 GMT+01:00 Vicente J. Botet Escriba < vicente.botet@wanadoo.fr>:

Le 21/01/15 10:11, Andrzej Krzemienski a écrit :

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Hi Everyone, I need the advice from the experts, on what is the recommended way to handle the following situation with regression tests.

A number of tests of Boost.Optional fail. (see here: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/optional.html) These are the failures in optional (optional references), because quite a lot of compilers implement reference binding in a non-standard-conforming manner. (For details of these bugs see here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/optional/doc/ html/boost_optional/dependencies_and_portability/ optional_reference_binding.html ).

Andrzej, are these regressions since last version(s) with compilers that worked, or are these related to new features that works on only some compilers?

Best, Vicente

These failures have been there for as long as optional references exist. It is that I no longer mark them as "expected".