Using Borland 5.5 I compile the following:

#ifdef BOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING #error "NO function template ordering supported" #else #error "YES function template ordering supported" #endif

And I get:

Fatal F1003 c:\boost_1_31_0\libs\serialization\test\test_zmisc.cpp 4: Error directive: "YES function template ordering supported"

Yet C:\boost_1_31_0\more\borland_cpp.html seems to suggest that I should get NO.

What am I missing here?

Our config test case passes for that compiler (which is based on how BOOST_NO_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ORDERING is actually used), but I suspect that there are other cases that fail. There is also a specific workaround for the Borland problem: make sure that all the overloads either take argument by reference or argument by value, and then partial ordering will work for that compiler. John.