On 3/17/2011 11:29 PM, Noah Roberts wrote:
On 3/16/2011 1:53 PM, Stephan T. Lavavej wrote:
[Noah Roberts]
The VS2010 compiler's decltype implementation gets a lot of things wrong though. It'll result in "T const" rather than "T" when used in auto returns and it gets function types wrong. I can't at the moment immediately think of the exact reproduction steps but I do know that decltype as implemented by 2010 is pretty far from being compliant. I still use it but every once in a while run into its issues.
Please report such bugs through Microsoft Connect instead of suffering in silence. If they affect you as a Boost developer or Boost user, please explain that too - it helps us to understand the impact of a bug.
Obviously we try to find and fix bugs ourselves, but submitting bug reports helps us help you. :->
I tried that route as have several others. Official response was, "We know, suck it." <snip>
Haha! And hear hear! Stephan, I frequently file bugs through the Connect website. Sometimes I wonder why because almost without exception they're closed "Won't Fix". MS has a looooong ways to go here with their product feedback. And also, how long did we have to wait for 2010 SP1? And it doesn't fix the bugs I care about *and* it screws Windows SDK 7.1 users[1] *and* it messed up assembly signing[2]. Just terrible. A humble suggestion: issue compiler patches out of band. And if you're going to ask people to file bugs, fix them. [1] http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=212355 [2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/03/11/10140139.aspx -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com