[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_WARNING ?

2003-06-20 Thread Daryle Walker
On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 9:59 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Daryle Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My point was that warnings are non-portable constructions made up by compiler makers. So are the semantics of #include. That doesn't mean we can't count on certain similarities (though they

[boost] Re: Novell NetWare support (filesystem), patch

2003-06-20 Thread Daryle Walker
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Beman Dawes wrote: [SNIP] Because the platform is apparently so similar to POSIX and/or Windows, I'd prefer not to treat it as a distinct platform. Rather, I'd like to treat BOOST_NETWARE as a variation on BOOST_POSIX and/or BOOST_WINDOWS. [TRUNCATE]

[boost] Re: Novell NetWare support (filesystem), patch

2003-06-20 Thread Petr Ovchenkov
Beman Dawes wrote: Reading the patch, I see one or two specific differences from POSIX or Windows, but basically operational functions are treaded as if on a POSIX platform, while paths are treated as if on Windows. Does that mean the Windows API is not available? Or was there some other

[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT - a little better

2003-06-20 Thread Pavel Vozenilek
John Torjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I was just thinking (actually, I needed this, while doing some coding), that STATIC_ASSERT could get a little of the SMART_ASSERT flavour. What am I talking about? In case a STATIC_ASSERT fails, how about dumping

[boost] objects serializing (from comp.lang.c++.moderated)

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Nasonov
Below is a copy of my post to comp.lang.c++.moderated http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=author:alnsn-mycop%40yandex.ruhl=enlr=ie=UTF-8selm=3eef18d6%40news.fhg.dernum=1 --- cut --- Thomas Hansen wrote: BTW! Serialization of objects in C++ or any other language for that reason is one of the

RE: [boost] Experimental audience-targeted regression results

2003-06-20 Thread Misha Bergal
Oops, sorry That was intended as a private e-mail to Aleksey. My apologies to Peter. Misha Bergal MetaCommunications Engineering ___ Unsubscribe other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] Comments on the bcp tool

2003-06-20 Thread John Maddock
However, it seems to be confused by the preprocessor library. Since the includes sometime have the form: #include BOOST_PP_ITERATE() the 'bcp' tool does not find them. For example, boost/preprocessor/iteration/detail/iter directory is needed by boost/function.hpp but

[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_WARNING ?

2003-06-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:49:42 -0400, Daryle Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 9:59 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Slightly. They are still non-portable constructions made up by compiler makers. As I understand it, the #include directive dumps the contents of a file

Re: [boost] Comments on the bcp tool

2003-06-20 Thread John Maddock
However, it seems to be confused by the preprocessor library. Since the includes sometime have the form: #include BOOST_PP_ITERATE() the 'bcp' tool does not find them. For example, boost/preprocessor/iteration/detail/iter directory is needed by boost/function.hpp but is not included.

Re: [boost] Re: Comments on the bcp tool

2003-06-20 Thread John Maddock
Anyone got a Win32 exe of bcp that they could email me? Eventually there probably will be one to download, but it's still developing quite rapidly at present, I'll mail you a binary build though. John. ___ Unsubscribe other changes:

Re: [boost] Package for Cygwin distribution

2003-06-20 Thread Reed Hedges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neal D. Becker Jun 19 2003 3:32PM If you are starting out, why not use current cygwin? Do you mean why not use GCC (3.2)? Because 3.2 is buggy and I can't use it with my software. And it would take me quite some time to download it on my slow

RE: [boost] Comments on the bcp tool

2003-06-20 Thread Hartmut Kaiser
John Maddock wrote: Here is the (main) code, which uses Wave to output the file names of all successfully opened include files (this needs some filtering to avoid double output of the same file): Interesting, the thing is I need the code to find all possible dependencies, so that

[boost] Re: [mpl] workaround needed for Borland

2003-06-20 Thread David Abrahams
Eric Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aleksey (and all), In working on porting boost::variant to Borland, I've come across some trouble with a bug in the compiler. Specfically, I'm getting Cannot have both a template class and function named 'bind1st' and similarly for bind2nd. I know

Re: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Augustus Saunders wrote: PS I'd like to hear more views on this - previous review comments were quite different, being very cautious about an 'advanced' scheme like this. I didn't react to this review at first because I was a bit disappointed by the content of the

RE: [boost] Re: Re: Math Constants Formal Review - usingnamespacestoselectfloat size is simpler?

2003-06-20 Thread Paul A Bristow
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Hagan | Sent: 20 June 2003 11:27 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [boost] Re: Re: Math Constants Formal Review - | using namespacestoselectfloat size is simpler? | | Paul A Bristow

Re: [boost] Re: Package for Cygwin distribution

2003-06-20 Thread Reed Hedges
Quoting David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neal D. Becker Jun 19 2003 3:32PM If you are starting out, why not use current cygwin? Do you mean why not use GCC (3.2)? Because 3.2 is buggy and I can't use it with my software. And it would take me quite some time to download it on my

Re: [boost] Licence Proliferation (background and explanation)

2003-06-20 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:49 AM 6/15/2003, John Maddock wrote: I've been working on an automated tool to extract and present a list of boost licences in effect for a given boost library (or collection of files). Although the tool is working well, it's throwing up a lot of licences that are used by just one or two

RE: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme - interval lower andupper values

2003-06-20 Thread Paul A Bristow
It may helpful to those unfamiliar to the Boost Interval library to see some exactly representable values of pi (from test_pi_interval.cpp) // Float 24 bit significand, 32 bit float // static const float pi_f_l = 13176794.0f/(1 22); // static const float

Re: [boost] Interest in a message buffer class for the boost library?

2003-06-20 Thread Paul Vanlint
So there seems to be some interest at least from a couple of people. To further clarify what I have, here is a piece of code using my msg buffer class to do a few different things and also, a snippet of the public part of my class definition. At one point there were functions which allowed data

[boost] Re: Math Constants Formal Review - using namespaces toselectfloatsize is simpler?

2003-06-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:31 +0100, Paul A Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, you wanted to know what is likely to be accepted. In a | formal review (this isn't anymore, AFAIU, is it?) I would | vote no to your approach. But would you vote yes if the only presentation was Daniel's

Re: [boost] [Graph] Improved creation of visitors from functionobjects

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
Douglas Gregor wrote: Creating new visitors in the BGL can be a pain, because it may require a lot of extra typing for simple cases. I'd like to add the ability to attach function objects to visitor events like this: dfs_visitor() .do_on_back_edge(var(has_cycle) = true)

[boost] tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
I have a few comments regarding the tokenizer library. 1. The documentation says that char_delimiters_separator is default parameter to 'tokenizer' template, and at the same time says that 'char_delimiters_separator' is deprecated. I think that's confusing and default parameter should be

RE: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Paul A Bristow wrote: [snip] | [*] It is not even true. Due to double rounding troubles, | using a higher precision can lead to a value that is not the | nearest number. Is this true even when you have a few more digits than necessary? Kahan's article suggested to

Re: [boost] tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Pavol Droba
Hi, I have no comment about the tokenize library, but if your are interested in the stuff like that, you can have a look into the sandbox. string_algo library already contains this functionality ( along with other interesting features ) and it is implemented in more generic way. Documentation

[boost] Re: tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Vladimir Prus wrote: 1. The documentation says that char_delimiters_separator is default parameter to 'tokenizer' template, and at the same time says that 'char_delimiters_separator' is deprecated. I think that's confusing and default parameter should be changed to 'char-separator'. I was

[boost] Re: Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:30:48 +0200 (CEST), Guillaume Melquiond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Paul A Bristow wrote: [snip] | [*] It is not even true. Due to double rounding troubles, | using a higher precision can lead to a value that is not the | nearest number. Is this

[boost] Formal Review Request: Numeric Conversions

2003-06-20 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Hi All! I hereby request a formal review of the Numeric Conversions library, which can be found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/numeric_conversions.zip Here's an except of the 'Overview' documentation section: -- The Boost Numeric

Re: [boost] Re: Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Gennaro Prota wrote: | [*] It is not even true. Due to double rounding troubles, | using a higher precision can lead to a value that is not the | nearest number. Is this true even when you have a few more digits than necessary? Kahan's article suggested to me

[boost] Re: Comments on the bcp tool

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
John Maddock wrote: Another note is on usability. Say I create directory po and find that some files are missing. I tweak bcp source and try again. But attempt to override files fail. I remove po directory. But then bcp says the destination does not exist. It's a bit inconvenient ---

[boost] Re: tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
Pavol Droba wrote: Hi, I have no comment about the tokenize library, but if your are interested in the stuff like that, you can have a look into the sandbox. string_algo library already contains this functionality ( along with other interesting features ) and it is implemented in more

Re: [boost] [BGL] Patch for nonrecursive DFS to fix stack overflow

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
Bruce Barr wrote: Here's a patch to depth_first_search.hpp in BGL in version 1.30.0 of boost that implements nonrecursive depth first search. This reduces or eliminates the problem of stack overflow that occurs with DFS in large graphs. There also may be a performance gain in some cases.