looking for msvc problems
Hi In case anybody has noticed problems with boost under MSVC platform, I would like to know about these problems and discuss possible solutions (on this list, if that will not go too far away from boost development). All insights are welcome. I'm not MS employee, but recently I got MVP and important part of my new role is to serve as communication channel with MS developers. Guys at MS are really interested in your insights; they actually asked me to gather your feedback! One problem that has been here for a while is inability to compile Windows headers with /Za switch - MS developers are currently searching for possible solutions (most recently this problem was noticed with Boost.Threads). B.
At 06:22 AM 2/6/2004, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
Compiler issues are on-topic as long as they relate to Boost code, although out-right bugs should be reported to the vendors rather than on this list. Thanks, --Beman PS: By "msvc" I assume you mean the current VC++ 7.1 compiler. Because our 6.0 toolset is named msvc, sometimes people on this list use that name to mean 6.0 only.
Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
Compiler issues are on-topic as long as they relate to Boost code,
Definitely. I'm asking to discuss on this list only issues related to boost code. Any other issues might be reported to me privately, or on microsoft.public.*vc newsgroups. And of course I cannot give any kind of warranty when and how discussed problems will be resolved - but there is always a chance to move things forward.
You are right. I'm mostly interested about VC71 related issues, however I also have VC7 thus I can try to reproduce problems in VC7 toolset, too (and pass it to MS). I think that MS guys would be also interested in Whidbey beta issues, if there is anybody willing to try it with boost (but privately please, as there is no such toolset now). B.
"Bronek Kozicki" <brok@rubikon.pl> wrote in message news:024601c3ecb1$b0c89dd0$d801a8c0@waw.home...
Well, if you'd like a little problem to look at right away, you can check out policy_ptr in the sandbox. It seems to compile and pass all the tests except for the one with the ref_linked policy. It seems to be a bug in VC7.1, because 8 other compilers generate the code correctly, and an inspection of the source doesn't turn up anything that looks wrong. That is, it compiles the test correctly, but it crashes at run-time. Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.571 / Virus Database: 361 - Release Date: 1/26/2004
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