David Abrahams wrote:
Doesn't Walter update DMC++ quite often? Would it be better to just report bugs to him and wait for the fixes? I have no major objection to the patches; I'm just slightly concerned about crufting up the codebase to add support for a previously unsupported compiler if it will happen without changes in a few weeks anyway.
I've made a few bug reports concerning type traits - although mainly concerning the bugs that I haven't worked around. You can see them here: http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?c%2B%2B/4156 I'm a little hesitant when it comes to overload resolution because I don't fully understand the rules, especially the subtleties required for the type traits library. Having said that, the main problem is the way it overloads variable argument lists, and I can probably get my head around that. Would anyone be willing to help me out by writing an explanation of what's required? I can put together examples showing exactly what fails. In this case, I didn't think the patch was that bad, it only really adds code to is_convertible, which already seems to have an implementation per compiler. I could simplify it a bit by adding BOOST_NO_INCLASS_MEMBER_INITIALIZATION to Digital Mars' config file, so that enums are used for all member static constants, but that seemed a little extreme. For the preprocessor library, I think that if all the bugs I reported were fixed then my changes could be totally removed. But I don't expect that will happen soon. Daniel