Re: [boost] [RFC] Boost library name mangling and Microsoft's 'secure STL' feature.

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:

There have been requests to make Boost Build cleanly support Microsoft's 'secure STL'/'checked iterators' feature.

Here's is one suggested implementation and how that will affect building Boost libraries on Windows:

We add a new <msvc-checked-iterators> Boost Build feature with values 'off' and 'on' and 'off' being the default.

It sounds OK to me except 2 issues. Are there other toolsets with checked iterator options? I thought gcc and stlport had them. Perhaps the feature should be <checked-iterators>. The default value should obey The Principle of Least Astonishment. IMO this means it should be equivalent to the toolset defaults. Thanks, Michael Marcin