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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> boost
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[boost] Re: Patches for Borland's free compiler
by David Abrahams other posts by this author
May 22 2003 4:49PM messages near this date
[boost] Patches for Borland's free compiler | [boost] Re: Patches for Borland's free compiler
"Chris Trengove" <trengove@[...].au>  writes:

> > I don't know that any BCCs can do it.  AFAIK they're all buggy.
> > Someone was working on a port; I think he got pretty far.
> 
>  I think I am the "someone", and I am fairly sure that no version of BCC will
>  compile BP.
> 
> > Nope, when I try it, BCC55sp2 chokes on integral constant
> > expressions, as usual.  Some fairly mechanical massage might be
> > enough to make it all work, though.
> 
>  This is probably the most common error with BCC, and it affects some other
>  parts of Boost as well. The compiler is happy if these static integral
>  constants are explicitly qualified
> 
>  template <class T>
>  struct Y {
>      static const bool value = ...            // some test here.
>      typedef X<Y::value>::type type;     // must have Y::value, not just
>  value.
>  };

Or if you use the MPL protocol of working with types instead of
integral constants directly.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

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