Martin Sebor wrote:
>Travis Vitek wrote:
>> Martin Sebor wrote:
>>> Travis, while testing your updated patch, I wonder if it would be
>>> possible to quickly and easily fix STDCXX-509 even for MSVC in
>>> a binary compatible way by using #pragma init_seg to initialize
>>> the constants before any user-defined objects?
>>>
>>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7977wcck(VS.71).aspx
>>> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7977wcck(VS.80).aspx
>>>
>>> Martin
>>
>> Yes, I think this is okay. I've attached a patch that includes this
>> change. I also added a rather ugly macro to use to guard
>> this stuff to avoid repeating the crazy logic in multiple places.
>
>Okay, thanks. Now I just need the ChangeLog.
2007-10-18 Travis Vitek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
STDCXX-509
* rw/_config.h [_RWSTD_VER_MAJOR]: Define macro for workaround
for binary compatbility issues with msvc.
* include/limits: Avoid creating binary compatibility issue.
* src/limits_bits.cpp: Ditto.
>
>Btw., how did you test this?
I haven't found a way to verify that the symbols are being initialized
at the appropriate time. I have tested the examples on builds of both
msvc-7.1 and msvc-8.0 to verify that I haven't broken anything obvious.
>
>And did you by any chance apply
>Farid's patch for the exception symbols (with the correction
>for the stdcxx version)?
>
Yes, the patch for the exception stuff was done seperately.
>Martin
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