I'm pretty satisfied with the way things are. I feel we've done all we can for now. a) CW still has this issue but most of the tests do pass. I'm convinced that a solution to this will eventually be found. I'm most intrigued by the most common error - "unregistered void cast" which seems to me to point to basic_object.hpp . I don't see how this exception could be tripped be the failure of type registration itself. My fiddling with basic_object.hpp was along the lines of your solution for pointer_serializer. Now I'm wondering about "is_pointer". Anyway, this will have to be addressed at our leasure. b) I was very disappointed that Comeau couldn't be made to work. The library does in fact build with this platform. But due to some sort of interaction with the Boost Test library, the tests won't link and can't be run. For all I know it would work with user code. I realize that Comeau isn't on the "required" list so its not a release issue c) The only thing left that might be addressable are issues with endian.hpp on some platforms such as acc. Also a very minor issue as far as I'm concerned. But I do think that if a header such as endian.hpp evolves into a defacto boost library component, an attempt should be made to have it supported on all platforms. May the serialization demo that uses it is the only test of it. Robert Ramey Rene Rivera wrote:
Douglas Gregor wrote:
On Jul 24, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
1. It figures that shortly before the code is frozen the CW serialization test *all* start breaking.
If you and Robert can find a solution that doesn't shake things up too much, preferably one that's BOOST_WORKAROUNDed for this compiler, I'll allow it.
Thanks. I checked in a minor change to get things compiling again. And thankfully it was already in a BOOST_WORKAROUND guard :-)
Bad new for Robert is that the code change he did doesn't seem to help the previous failures for CW. That is the failures to register the indirect polymorphic pointer types with the archive type map.