On 7/1/2011 5:28 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
Not a review, just a couple of comments.
That kind of library would be *very* valuable if it could be made to work with a wide spectrum of compilers out there.
I know that kind stuff can break easily, so I'd really like to have some test results for other compilers (xlC, Intel, ...) to know whether that library is really limited to MSVC/GCC or not, in order to make a more informed evaluation.
I will try some tests with clang. As for other compilers, I just do not have others to test against. if there are other compilers which have a free version that I can use I will do so.
Otherwise, I also have a question:
Does the library deal with static const integral data members which you cannot take the address of, and if it does, how does it do it?
I mean things like
struct A { static const int value = 42; };
That works correctly in the library for gcc and VC++. Evidently the code that tests, which uses an expression of &A::value, is accepted by those compilers. Is it illegal to take the address of a static const data member in C++ ?