Christopher Lux wrote:
Hi, we discovered a compiler bug using Visual C++ 8.0 (SP1). This bug makes boost namespace items visible in the global namespace and so makes boost libraries conflict with other libraries. The following example [1] displays how this bug can make namespace items public. When moving the exception class definition outside the namespace everything works as expected.
We encountered this problem when using boost::integer in combination with boost::serialization. After including the file shared_count_132.hpp all boost::integer types are public and conflict with other libraries. This leads to the problem shown in the example [0]. The uint32_t type is publicly visible.
To our knowledge this bug is present in Visual C++ 8.0 (SP1). Visual C++ 9.0 does not show this bug anymore.
Yep this is indeed evil :-( Boost.Serialization's author, Robert Ramey, seems to be away at present (Robert?), but if he'd like a Boost.Config macro to help work around this it can be added soon enough. John.