Has anyone had problems getting the new wave preprocessor (cpp.cpp) to compile? NMotably any position_policy error messages (not defined in spirit and such...) Also i've been getting some linker errors - I'm using gcc 3.2.1 (is that the problem?) any clues will be appreciated. regards, -fas
Hartmut Kaiser wrote: > > Hi all, > > There is a new version of the Wave C++ preprocessor library available > (V0.9.3). This release addresses two different goals. > > 1. The Wave libary has a new C++0x mode, which implements the recently > proposed additions to the C++ preprocessor (see here: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/1600772 and here: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/1618972). In short > this mode > > - adds variadics and placemarkers to C++ as standardized in the C99 > language > - adds macro scopes as proposed by Paul Mensonides (slightly changed > after heavy discussions with Paul) > - adds well defined token-pasting of unrelated tokens as proposed by > Paul Mensonides > - adds the __comma__, __lparen__ and __rparen__ alternative pp tokens as > proposed by Vesa Karvonen > > You may want to read about the details of this features in the Wave > documentation, which is found inside the distributive or online here: > http://spirit.sourceforge.net/index.php?doc=docs/wave_v0_9/index.html > > 2. For all other features it is merely a maintanance release, which > fixes certain bugs and adds minor features. > > The Wave preprocessor library has shown to be very stable and Standards > conformant now. It is able to compile the strict pp-lib (currently > prepared for release by Paul Mensonides) and the Order library recently > published by Vesa Karvonen. Besides Wave there is currently only one > preprocessor, which is able to compile both libraries: gcc. > > To get a proof of concept for the implemented experimental extensions > I've 'ported' Vesa's Order library to use the macro scoping facilities, > which was straightforward to do. The whole Order library now exposes > one! name to the global macro scope. BTW the compilation of the test > scripts contained in the library are now about 30%! faster, then the > compilation of the equivalent scripts with the original version (w/o > macro scopes). AFAIK Paul currently prepares a version of the strict > pp-lib which uses the macro scoping features too. But I do not want to > pre-announce something here, I'm sure, he will have a lot to say on this > topic in the near future :-) > > You can download the new Wave version here: > http://spirit.sourceforge.net/index.php?doc=download/Wave_0_9.html > > Any comments would be very appreciated. > Regards Hartmut > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara > The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions > www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
