On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:35:57 +0100, Paul A. Bristow wrote > Trying to use boost/date-time in MSVC 7.1 in 'strict' mode option > /Za 'disable language extensions' it seems that > > boost::int64_t isn't available. > > After a journey through the labryinthine config modules, I have got compiling > with > > #define BOOST_HAS_MS_INT64 // required if language extensions disabled /Za. > > as the first statement. > > but I am unclear if this is a deficiency in either boost/cstdint and/or > date-time/compiler_config.hpp > > or in my understanding of the MS option > > but it might be worth documenting somewhere, perhaps as a comment in > cstdint.hpp?
I'm not an expert on the VC options, but it seems that if the user is flagging us that we shouldn't use any language extensions then we should honor that. So I would accept that it is a bug in date-time that it doesn't offer an option to configure without int64_t. One other user has brought this issue up, but it hasn't been high enough on my priority list as the library runs well on a large set of platforms and removal of int64_t from the core will surely slow things down (especially with 64 bit processors getting cheap :-) So I recommend the following in steps: 1) Will define BOOST_HAS_MS_INT64 in date-time/compiler_config for now 2) Will document that this extension is used in the date-time docs 3) Will in the future provide options to use date-time without int64_t And I agree that a note in cstdint.hpp might be nice too. Jeff _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
