> I've noticed that the philosophy of boost as it concerns long long is: > if the type exists then use it. Since it is a non standard feature > shouldn't it be used only if requested by the user (e.g. with a macro > from the command line: > > -DBOOST_ENABLE_LONG_LONG
Maybe, but you could end up with a lot of macros to define if you want all the extentions enabled. IMO the vast majority of users do want all possible extentions enabled. > )?. I ask this because in --pedantic mode gcc emits a lot of warnings > in boost headers even if the client code doesn't use long long. Now, > for gcc the problem is easily solved because it has > > -Wno-long-long > > but is there a similar solution for other compilers? IMO it isn't a problem for other compilers (by and large they don't warn). John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/index.htm _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
