From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-19 11:06:55
On Jul 19, 2005, at 5:41 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>> But shouldn't this go into some prefix file instead of a postfile
>> file?
>
> We've always used the suffix file for stuff like this that is supposed
> to be "generic". Of course if we run into enough problems that might
> have to change, but I don't think we're there yet.
>
>> See http://tinyurl.com/aywa7, it failes because of missing support
>> for long
>> long in the iostream library.
>
> Yep, I can reproduce that via HP-Testdrive, worse the std lib *does*
> support numeric_limits<long long>, it's just the iostreams stuff
> that's missing.
>
> As far as limits_test is concerned there's a workaround for the same
> problem with MSVC specifically for that test, I've tested the
> following patch as a workaround for gcc, and it fixes the issue for
> now, but we should probably add a new config macro or something if
> there are any other tests affected though. What do you think? Should
> this go into 1.33? It's probably a little close for comfort, Doug?
Yes, go ahead with the change to the test. The config macro will have
to wait until 1.34, of course.
Doug