On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:50:07 -0500 David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
The way these things are handled is as follows: if another Boost library wants to use facilities that are an implementation detail of an existing Boost library, they are moved into boost/detail by the author of the former library. If someone wants to make the functionality available to users, that person moves it into namespace boost, documents it, and writes tests. Then the library goes through a fast-track review process.
I'm happy to have either of those things happen to that code, but I'm not volunteering to do any of the work ;-)
OK, in some spare moments, I am making an attempt. However, I seem to have run into many minor issues. The first is that I can not reproduce your documented problems with comparisons being wrong from shared libraries. My compiler triggers the workaround. However, when I explicitly remove the workaround, my tests still pass. Do you have any tests that demonstrate this is broken behavior? Here is what I have tried... namespace shlibdetail { extern boost::type_info int_; extern boost::type_info get_int_(); extern boost::type_info * get_int_ptr(); } void test_shlib() { boost::type_info int_ = boost::type_id<int>(); BOOST_CHECK(int_ == shlibdetail::int_); BOOST_CHECK(int_ == shlibdetail::get_int_()); BOOST_CHECK(int_ == *shlibdetail::get_int_ptr()); } where the code for the shlib is... #include "boost/type_id.hpp" namespace shlibdetail { boost::type_info int_ = boost::type_id<int>(); boost::type_info get_int_() { return boost::type_id<int>(); } boost::type_info const * get_int_ptr() { static boost::type_info * ptr; if (ptr == 0) { ptr = new boost::type_info(boost::type_id<int>()); } return ptr; } } // end detail namespace