On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Matt Calabrese <rivorus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Lorenzo Caminiti <lorcaminiti@gmail.com>wrote:
Does it consistently work on MSVC?
I decided early on to not bother trying to support MSVC, at least for the time being.
Well, that simplifies things :) but it removes a large set of users :(
Not only does its broken preprocessor mean I'd have to make a lot of workarounds,
Boost.Preprocessor should already impl most of the workarounds needed. Some other workarounds (not too many) will be needed in Boost.Generic for empty (e.g., ( void ) instead of ( ) ) and to ensure proper macro expansion order (usually PP_EXPAND or similar but re-impl because of reentrancy). That's at least my experience with supporting both MSVC and GCC for Boost.Contract.
but it also doesn't support some of the language features I use to emulate N2914 concepts (this may have changed a little since last year, but I have a feeling not by much).
This is unfortunate because again, a large number of users have to use MSVC... what were the MSVC issues that caused the Boost.Generic concept emulation code not to work (pp a side)? Thanks, --Lorenzo