Re: [boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Just got here at home from the office... sorry for the delay] > > "William E. Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> >> Fernando Cacciola said: >> >> > Here's a description of my configu

Re: [boost] Policy type extraction

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
Daniel Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Given the recent discussions on policy based pointers and arbitrary > parameter order I thought I'd see if there is any interest in some > policy extraction template's I recently wrote. > > The idea here is that the user specifies a set of parameters, a

Re: [boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (For example, the SF docs mention: "cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost", > while the boost site docs says: "cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost") The latter is correct. -- David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http:/

[boost] Policy type extraction

2003-01-21 Thread Daniel Wallin
Given the recent discussions on policy based pointers and arbitrary parameter order I thought I'd see if there is any interest in some policy extraction template's I recently wrote. The idea here is that the user specifies a set of parameters, a set of rules by which to extract the policy types

[boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Fernando Cacciola
[Just got here at home from the office... sorry for the delay] "William E. Kempf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Fernando Cacciola said: > > > Here's a description of my configuration and attempts > > in case someone can help me (hint hi

[boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Fernando Cacciola
[Just got here at home from the office... sorry for the delay] "Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 05:28 PM 1/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: > > >What the heck is plink? > >Forget about that; all you need is cvs -d:ext:... >

[boost] Re: Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Fernando Cacciola
[Just got here at home from the office... sorry for the delay] "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > According to the docs I've read so far, plink.exe/putty.exe > > is windows

Re: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-21 Thread Alkis Evlogimenos
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 05:33 pm, Beman Dawes wrote: > At 08:05 PM 1/21/2003, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: > >On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:18 am, John Maddock wrote: > >> The linux status page is still all messed up: the library names are > > > >missing > > > >> as are test type from the tabl

[boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Fernando Cacciola
[Just got here at home from the office... sorry for the delay] "David B. Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje b0kj3j$49e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b0kj3j$49e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > [.

Re: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-21 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:05 PM 1/21/2003, Alkis Evlogimenos wrote: >On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:18 am, John Maddock wrote: >> The linux status page is still all messed up: the library names are >missing >> as are test type from the table, would it be possible to modify your >> scripts to use a variant of boost-path

Re: [boost] Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:28 PM 1/21/2003, David Abrahams wrote: >What the heck is plink? >Forget about that; all you need is cvs -d:ext:... Dave, I think Fernando is following the new SourceForge docs, which use a different set of support programs than were recommended by the old docs. Fernando, do you have pagea

Re: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-21 Thread Alkis Evlogimenos
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:18 am, John Maddock wrote: > The linux status page is still all messed up: the library names are missing > as are test type from the table, would it be possible to modify your > scripts to use a variant of boost-path/tools/regression/run_tests.sh? > (Since we know tha

[boost] Re: Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread David B. Held
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > [...] > I use my cygwin ssh on windows. It's called "ssh.exe". > You also got an ssh.exe with WinCVS which should work. I'm guessing you got ssh from Cygwin only, since I have the latest WinCVS, a

Re: [boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the docs I've read so far, plink.exe/putty.exe > is windows equivalent to unix 'ssh'. I use my cygwin ssh on windows. It's called "ssh.exe". You also got an ssh.exe with WinCVS which should work. > The doc for :ext: says that I need

[boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread David B. Held
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > [...] > Don't know anything about this plink stuff. What's the point? It's an ssh client for use in automation. It doesn't have the interactive output that a normal ssh client would have. > > [.

[boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Fernando Cacciola
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > -- > > Attempt 1: > > == > > > > If I run putty.exe with pageant running with the key loaded, > > and configured as: > > >

Re: [boost] Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread William E. Kempf
Fernando Cacciola said: > Here's a description of my configuration and attempts > in case someone can help me (hint hint...) > > - Windows98 > - cvs95.exe version: 1.11.4 > - WinCVS.exe version: 1.3.8.1 Beta 8 Build 1 > - PuTTY 0.53b > > * I have checked out boost this morning on a local working

Re: [boost] Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"Fernando Cacciola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > -- > Attempt 1: > == > > If I run putty.exe with pageant running with the key loaded, > and configured as: > > Host Name: cvs.boost.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost > Protocol: SSH2 (Port 22) > Autologin: fcacciola (which is

[boost] Re: prox_descriptor feedback?

2003-01-21 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
- Original Message - From: "Larry Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Mirek Fidler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Philippe A. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Boehm, Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: prox_descriptor feedback? > Philippe

Re: [boost] Review results: Optional library

2003-01-21 Thread Fernando Cacciola
.. getting just back from Vacations. - Original Message - From: "Douglas Gregor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Boost mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:10 PM Subject: [boost] Review results: Optional library > > Fernando Cacciola's

Re: [boost] Boost on HP-UX 11.0

2003-01-21 Thread dLux
>Is there any work toward using boost in HP-UX, with aCC and stlport? >I even have a problem with building bjam for that platform :-( There is some work going on here at boost, and I hope others will answer you in more detail about that. But there is one thing that you a

Re: [boost] Proposal for any_cast to references

2003-01-21 Thread Douglas Gregor
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 04:24 pm, David Abrahams wrote: > Unai Uribarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Currently, any_cast doesn't allow to cast to > > references. Instead, you have obscure castings from > > any* to T returning T*. > > That sounds like a design mistake on the face of it. This

Re: [boost] Proposal for any_cast to references

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
Unai Uribarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently, any_cast doesn't allow to cast to > references. Instead, you have obscure castings from > any* to T returning T*. That sounds like a design mistake on the face of it. > I think that the following code is more standard > conforming and, there

Re: [boost] A question about static_log2

2003-01-21 Thread Vesa Karvonen
Gennaro Prota: [...] in many cases boost has implementations enormously more complicated than necessary. I would recommend that you seriously show how to make simpler implementations. I'm sure that significant simplifications, that work as well as the more complicated implementation, would be

[boost] Re: prox_descriptor feedback?

2003-01-21 Thread David B. Held
"Larry Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > [...] > How does a pattern description something like: > > Participants: > descriptor_of_singleton > - descriptor* > descriptor for subject_start >

RE: [boost] Interval library merge

2003-01-21 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:23 AM 1/21/2003, Paul A. Bristow wrote: >PS I think it is time to have another Formal Review of Math Constants. >Please can the Review Wizard schedule this? Formal Requests should really be posted with a subject line that reads "Formal Review request: " or similar so the Review Manager

[boost] Boost and gcc's new C++ parser

2003-01-21 Thread John Levon
Just wondering if anyone has been isolating testcases etc. from boost code for gcc HEAD's new parser. The first problem I came across was : ../../boost/boost/type_traits/is_function.hpp:59: error: expected class-name ../../boost/boost/type_traits/is_function.hpp:59: error: expected `{' ../../boos

Re: [boost] gc_ptr<> -> shifted_ptr<>

2003-01-21 Thread William E. Kempf
Philippe A. Bouchard said: > Ok... I have renamed gc_ptr<> back to shifted_ptr<>. BTW what do you > people prefer? > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/shifted_ptr.zip > > I am not familiar with the std locking mechanisms but how the following > is supposed to be unlocked? > #ifdef BOOST_H

[boost] Proposal for any_cast to references

2003-01-21 Thread Unai Uribarri
Currently, any_cast doesn't allow to cast to references. Instead, you have obscure castings from any* to T returning T*. I think that the following code is more standard conforming and, therefore, more understandable than the currently allowed counterparts: any x=int(5); ++any_cast(

Re: [boost] Regression tests on Cray C++

2003-01-21 Thread Matthias Troyer
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:43 PM, Beman Dawes wrote: At 12:23 PM 1/21/2003, Matthias Troyer wrote: >I could get jam to compile and could start the regression tests with a >couple of patches to Makefiles and scripts. Now I am stuck, since for >each library the regression tests abort wit

Re: [boost] regression: run_tests.sh

2003-01-21 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-21] David Abrahams wrote: >Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 16:30, Rene Rivera wrote: >>> BUt I can't figure out why it doesn't detect the toolset? All the build.sh >>> does is check to see if "xlc" is in the path. >> I can confirm that xlc is in th

[boost] prox_descriptor feedback?

2003-01-21 Thread Larry Evans
Philippe: I just wanted to let you know I am looking at your code at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/gc_ptr.zip However, I've not had time to understand it fully. I do like the way you've got a virtual table pointer (VTP) installed in each garbage collected object. Currently, I'm try

[boost] Re: is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:58:47 -0500, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think anyone thought very carefully >about the meaning of "convertible" before, and I think we could >probably stand to tighten up our documentation in this area. All it >says right now is: > >Evaluates to

[boost] gc_ptr<> -> shifted_ptr<>

2003-01-21 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
Ok... I have renamed gc_ptr<> back to shifted_ptr<>. BTW what do you people prefer? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/shifted_ptr.zip I am not familiar with the std locking mechanisms but how the following is supposed to be unlocked? #ifdef BOOST_HAS_THREADS mutex_type::scoped_lock lock(m

Re: [boost] regression: run_tests.sh

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 21 January 2003 16:30, Rene Rivera wrote: >> BUt I can't figure out why it doesn't detect the toolset? All the build.sh >> does is check to see if "xlc" is in the path. > I can confirm that xlc is in the path. So that's not it. Note though that

Re: [boost] Regression tests on Cray C++

2003-01-21 Thread Beman Dawes
At 12:23 PM 1/21/2003, Matthias Troyer wrote: >I could get jam to compile and could start the regression tests with a >couple of patches to Makefiles and scripts. Now I am stuck, since for >each library the regression tests abort with an error message such as: > >*** Error: std::runtime_error: boo

Re: [boost] another is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> By the same reasoning, is_convertible should evaluate > to >> true, since a function type is implicitly convertible to its pointer type. >> But given the current implementation (1.29.0), >> is_convertible doesn't compile. >> >> Opinions? Is this just

Re: [boost] Re: is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't want to be involved in another war here, also because I'm > totally ignorant about boost's implementation of is_convertible and > because I don't know what is its purpose (i.e.: I haven't read the > documentation and I can just have an idea from

Re: [boost] Regression tests on Cray C++

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
Matthias Troyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could get jam to compile and could start the > regression tests with a couple of patches to Makefiles > and scripts. Now I am stuck, since for each library the > regression tests abort with an error message such as: > > *** Error: std::runtime_error:

[boost] Regression tests on Cray C++

2003-01-21 Thread Matthias Troyer
I could get jam to compile and could start the regression tests with a couple of patches to Makefiles and scripts. Now I am stuck, since for each library the regression tests abort with an error message such as: *** Error: std::runtime_error: boost::filesystem::directory_iterator constructor: "

Re: [boost] Problems with boost on Cray C++ release 3.6

2003-01-21 Thread Matthias Troyer
Both CRAY and cray are defined. I have also heard that future Cray compiler versions will have a 16-bit short type, albeit with performance penalties. Matthias On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:10 PM, John Maddock wrote: While I am still working on these three issues, I could solve the probl

Re: [boost] Boost on HP-UX 11.0

2003-01-21 Thread Beman Dawes
At 06:31 AM 1/21/2003, dLux wrote: >... > >Is there any work toward using boost in HP-UX, with aCC and stlport? >I even have a problem with building bjam for that platform :-( There is some work going on here at boost, and I hope others will answer you in more detail about that. But there is on

[boost] Regression test page locations [was: regression tests on AIX]

2003-01-21 Thread Beman Dawes
At 03:54 AM 1/21/2003, Toon Knapen wrote: >> OTHO, it is nice to have a set in CVS at the >> time of each release. >That was my intention. To have a status page for every release. Currently >boost/status/compiler_status.html actually always points to the status of >the CVS (indeed the regressi

[boost] Re: gc_ptr.zip with cleaner doc

2003-01-21 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
"Philippe A. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b0jkcv$uan$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b0jkcv$uan$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > The main documentation of gc_ptr<> was cleaned up and can be found in > /gc_ptr/doc/structboost_1_1gc__ptr.html: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/gc_ptr.zip U

[boost] Re: is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:04:30 -0800, "Eric Niebler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It seems to me that the current implementation of is_convertible will >conclude that int* is convertible to int[10]. That's because when a >function parameter is of array type, it is treated just like a pointer. But >

Re: [boost] regression: run_tests.sh

2003-01-21 Thread Toon Knapen
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 16:30, Rene Rivera wrote: > BUt I can't figure out why it doesn't detect the toolset? All the build.sh > does is check to see if "xlc" is in the path. I can confirm that xlc is in the path. So that's not it. Note though that calling 'xlc' without arguments will launch t

Re: [boost] HP regression tests

2003-01-21 Thread Toon Knapen
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:42, John Maddock wrote: > I missed that, the || !defined(BOOST_STRICT_CONFIG) part should not be > present against a version check that is clearly not the most recent > compiler version. Looks like we need someone to run the configure script > on the most recent compi

[boost] Re: A question about static_log2

2003-01-21 Thread Gennaro Prota
Ok. We've really put a lot of irons in the fire now, so please let me explain. First of all I want to point out the purpose of my first post: though it is specifically addressed static_log2 it is actually a reaction to a general trend of boost, i.e. that of having complicated solutions for simple

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-21 Thread Terje Slettebø
>From: "Paul Mensonides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > It may not be about "good vs bad" but whether it strikes the right > > balance, or a number of other things. My point is that its too early > > to tell since we're not looking at a design, and showing

RE: [boost] database library?

2003-01-21 Thread Boris Schäling
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff Garland > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:50 AM > To: Boost mailing list > Subject: Re: [boost] database library? > > [...] > > >Oracle OCCI seems pretty modern and might > >make a good starting

Re: [boost] regression: run_tests.sh

2003-01-21 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-21] Toon Knapen wrote: >Rene, > >On IBM build.sh does not detect automagically that its supposed to use vacpp. >So If you add $toolset (as shown) to the call to build.sh in run_tests.sh it >works fine : > >LOCATE_TARGET=bin sh ./build.sh $toolset I can see how that makes it better :-)

Re: [boost] regression tools

2003-01-21 Thread Rene Rivera
[2003-01-21] Toon Knapen wrote: >I can't compile the regression tools anymore on HP because psetid_t is not >known. This is however defined in /usr/include/sys/types.h. I've no thread >experience (I used distributed parallellism only) so I prefer someone else to >make the necessary modif. > >gc

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"Paul Mensonides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Original Message - > From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> Argument is very different from derision. I think it would be very >> >> foolish to deride Andrei's opinions, which usually have something very >> >> incisive behind t

[boost] gc_ptr.zip with cleaner doc

2003-01-21 Thread Philippe A. Bouchard
The main documentation of gc_ptr<> was cleaned up and can be found in /gc_ptr/doc/structboost_1_1gc__ptr.html: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/gc_ptr.zip Should I include the former mutable_ptr<> in the package? Philippe A. Bouchard ___

Re: [boost] HP regression tests

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There is also >> >> #if (__HP_aCC <= 33300) || !defined(BOOST_STRICT_CONFIG) >> // member templates are sufficiently broken that we disable them for now >> #define BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATES >> #define BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_NESTED_DERIVATIONS >> #

[boost] Boost on HP-UX 11.0

2003-01-21 Thread dLux
Hello, I have searched for sources that can help me compile boost on HP-UX 11.0 with aCC (and for the old binary format), but I cannot find so much. I have read most of the documentation, mailing-list about it, but I did not find a good point. Then I realized that aCC fails with most of the tests

Re: [boost] HP regression tests

2003-01-21 Thread David Abrahams
"John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There is also >> >> #if (__HP_aCC <= 33300) || !defined(BOOST_STRICT_CONFIG) >> // member templates are sufficiently broken that we disable them for now >> #define BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATES >> #define BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_NESTED_DERIVATIONS >> #

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Dimov
From: "Paul Mensonides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > However, the point being that consensus on some issues will never be > reached. We are faced with a question. Is a policy-based smart pointer a > good design? What makes you think that we are faced with this question? _

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Policy-based smart pointers revisisted

2003-01-21 Thread Peter Dimov
From: "Paul Mensonides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't want to propagate a war here, but Andrei's perception (of his > perception) is not entirely unfounded either. In the past, Andrei has > raised some practical concerns with certain design strategies. At that > time, his opinion was derided ba

Re: [boost] is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread Terje Slettebø
>From: "Eric Niebler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It seems to me that the current implementation of is_convertible will > conclude that int* is convertible to int[10]. That's because when a > function parameter is of array type, it is treated just like a pointer. But > according to 4/3 of the standard:

Re: [boost] is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> It seems to me that the current implementation of is_convertible will > conclude that int* is convertible to int[10]. That's because when a > function parameter is of array type, it is treated just like a pointer. But > according to 4/3 of the standard: > > "An expression e can be _implicitly co

[boost] regression tools

2003-01-21 Thread Toon Knapen
I can't compile the regression tools anymore on HP because psetid_t is not known. This is however defined in /usr/include/sys/types.h. I've no thread experience (I used distributed parallellism only) so I prefer someone else to make the necessary modif. gcc-C++-action ../../../libs/filesystem/

Re: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> Now they do :-) Alkis, The linux status page is still all messed up: the library names are missing as are test type from the table, would it be possible to modify your scripts to use a variant of boost-path/tools/regression/run_tests.sh? (Since we know that that one does the right thing on lin

Re: [boost] Live summary of regression tests.

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> Enjoy. Altogether way too cool :-) Nice work! John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/index.htm ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] Whom to send this?

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> I found out what to edit in gcc-tools.jam in order to get BOOST compiled > with regex and threads under NetBSD 1.6. > > Anybody out there familiar with boost build process I can send this short > tutorial for having a look at it (telling me what > can be achieved easier)? Please post to the list

Re: [boost] Problems with boost on Cray C++ release 3.6

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> While I am still working on these three issues, I could solve the > problem with cstdint.hpp. and have attached a context diff of the > changes. The main issue was that short is 32 bit and int is 64 bit on > the Cray: I'll commit that, but I would prefer to make the test Cray specific as well as

Re: [boost] another is_convertible corner case

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> By the same reasoning, is_convertible should evaluate to > true, since a function type is implicitly convertible to its pointer type. > But given the current implementation (1.29.0), > is_convertible doesn't compile. > > Opinions? Is this just too nit-picky? You're probably right, I guess we sh

Re: [boost] HP regression tests

2003-01-21 Thread John Maddock
> There is also > > #if (__HP_aCC <= 33300) || !defined(BOOST_STRICT_CONFIG) > // member templates are sufficiently broken that we disable them for now > #define BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATES > #define BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_NESTED_DERIVATIONS > #define BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_TYPES_IN_TEMPLATE_VALU

RE: [boost] Interval library merge

2003-01-21 Thread Paul A. Bristow
I agree with this - intervals seem more numeric to me - though where that leaves constants (especially interval constants) I am less clear. Paul PS I think it is time to have another Formal Review of Math Constants. Please can the Review Wizard schedule this? > -Original Message- > From

Re: [boost] A question about static_log2

2003-01-21 Thread Vesa Karvonen
Gennaro Prota: Vesa Karvonen: > enum {c = (1 << n) <= x}; The above should preferably read: enum {c = (1ul << n) <= c}; Wrong. The left-shift may give undefined behavior, because n can be greater than or equal to the number of value bits in an unsigned long [...] The problem is that the C

[boost] regression: run_tests.sh

2003-01-21 Thread Toon Knapen
Rene, On IBM build.sh does not detect automagically that its supposed to use vacpp. So If you add $toolset (as shown) to the call to build.sh in run_tests.sh it works fine : LOCATE_TARGET=bin sh ./build.sh $toolset toon ___ Unsubscribe & other change

Re: [boost] Re: regression tests on Aix

2003-01-21 Thread Toon Knapen
> By "versioned" do you mean committed to CVS? Yes. > Not on a daily basis, because > of the space implications. of course. > OTHO, it is nice to have a set in CVS at the > time of each release. That was my intention. To have a status page for every release. Currently boost/status/compiler_sta