David Abrahams writes:
Eric Niebler <eric@boost-consulting.com> writes:
Ah. But the fact remains that remove_pointer et al. are indeed broken on VC6 and VC7, and the regression tests bear this out.
IMO, the best path is to preserve the meaning of BOOST_BROKEN_COMPILER_TYPE_TRAITS_SPECIALIZATION for compilers without PTS. That is, it still defines full specializations of the type traits templates. But the typeof implementation should be what the primary template uses for compilers without PTS. That way, everything that is working now, keeps working with no change in performance.
I think it would better to do some actual speed testing there. After all, using the typeof hack *could* turn out to be much faster and use fewer resources than doing it the other way.
My thoughts exactly. -- Aleksey Gurtovoy MetaCommunications Engineering