I'm not sure about copyright restrictions on posting excerpts, but this article explains what Microsoft are trying to achieve: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html... I'm fairly sure that theVC8 beta 1 documentation covers this issue, but why couldn't you install beta 2?
I dont think defining _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE in a header is acceptable.
I also agree. This should be defined in the bjam config file for TOOLS=vc-8_0, as I said earlier. Is that David Abraham's area of responsibility? - Keith MacDonald "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> wrote in message news:da4hpf$ton$1@sea.gmane.org...
Keith MacDonald wrote:
_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE would best be defined by bjam when TOOLS=vc-8_0, as many other Boost libraries get the same warnings.
The deprecations are purely for security (potential buffer overflow) reasons. The help subsystem installed with the VC8 beta explains all. Lookup gets_s in the index, and then follow the link to "Security Enhancements in the CRT", to get up to speed quickly.
Unforunately, my beta 1 expired today, and I wasted about 8 hours last week trying to install beta 2 and then reinstalling beta 1.
If there's a discussion specifically about deprecated member functions, could you please post an excerpt?
Jonathan