On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:47:13 -0500, Arkadiy Vertleyb <vertleyb@hotmail.com> wrote:
HI all,
God only knows what else can be found inside this compiler if one is willing to dig real deep.
For example, Igor' Chesnokov from RSDN (Russian Software Development Network) has found a way to implement typeof() that does not require registration, and probably has compile-time performance of a native typeof.
How? Apparently, some weird "feature" of Visual C++ allowed him to twick a template body at the moment of instantiation, when additional context is available, thus "registering" classes on the fly, at the moment of taking typeof().
Microsoft-specific "bugfeatures" are generally not in the area of my interests. However I do realize that, on the Microsoft compiler, this might look much more attractive then anything Peder and I have implemented. And even though I realize that this might be a serious competition, I would feel really bad not to mention this here:
http://rsdn.ru/Forum/?mid=1094305
Thoughts?
Wow. Very impressive. What a pity noone has thought of that earlier... I have modified the current vintage implementation to use this form of typeof, allowing it to compile with VC6.5 as well. I guess this deprecates most of the vintage code, since that was implemented in order to allow support of VC6.5 and VC7.0. This actually makes it possible to properly implement remove_xxx for VC6.5 and VC7.0 without any form of registration :) Regards, Peder
In particular, how do people feel about implementing someting for some particular compiler using specific "features" of this compiler? Should this be acceptable?
Regards,
Arkadiy
-- Regards, Arkadiy
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