From: "John Femiani" <JOHN.FEMIANI@asu.edu>
I wrote a little macro that uses BOOST_TYPEOF to determine the type of one of its arguments, but it fails when I pass (*this) as an argument in vc8. I forced emulation because, according to the docs, vc8 does not seem to have the bug that let other vc compilers actually support native typeof. I don't know the internals of the TYPEOF library well enough to diagnose the problem, but the error is easy to produce. [...] If there is any way to accomplish the type of access I am attempting from inside a macro I would really appreciate it (in my use case macros seem to be absolutely necessary for other reasons). As you can see from the example it is possible to avoid the problem by creating a reference to *this and passing that, but I do not like this in principle because too many caveats make the macro difficult to use.
I think this problem is not related to the usage inside a macro. It looks like MSVC can't handle "this" inside BOOST_TYPEOF() in general :-( At some point the compiler gets confused, and thinks that "this" is used outside a member function... The "native" usage for vc8 is available in CVS, but unfortunately it will not help with this issue. Regards, Arkadiy