Re: [boost] [Serialization] Things that should be qualified.

David Abrahams wrote:

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

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There is also at least one macro in that category: BOOST_EXPORT. That in particular seems likely to cause problems, because after all "export" is a keyword that's supported only on a few compilers and a natural stand-in, for those who want to support export, would be BOOST_EXPORT. This should've been BOOST_SERIALIZATION_EXPORT.

BOOST_DLLEXPORT, BOOST_USED, ...

If that macro does what I think it does BOOST_DLLEXPORT is a bad choice. DLL exporting macros *must* be library specific otherwise boost libraries can not use each other. For an example look at the AFX_DLL mess MS created. Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org