From: Marcus Lindblom (macke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-15 02:07:20
Christopher Lux wrote:
> Hi,
> we discovered a compiler bug using Visual C++ 8.0 (SP1). This bug makes
> boost namespace items visible in the global namespace and so makes boost
> libraries conflict with other libraries. The following example [1]
> displays how this bug can make namespace items public. When moving the
> exception class definition outside the namespace everything works as
> expected.
>
> We encountered this problem when using boost::integer in combination
> with boost::serialization. After including the file shared_count_132.hpp
> all boost::integer types are public and conflict with other libraries.
> This leads to the problem shown in the example [0]. The uint32_t type is
> publicly visible.
>
> To our knowledge this bug is present in Visual C++ 8.0 (SP1). Visual C++
> 9.0 does not show this bug anymore.
We found this last week, I posed it to the list and filed a ticket:
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1773
We found it in conjunction with IntelTBB, rather than boost::integer though.
Robert has fixed it though, it looks like. (Good work!)
Cheers
/Marcus