Subject: Re: [boost] [1.54.0][release] Provisional schedule
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-06 17:04:41
On 5/6/2013 4:01 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 6 May 2013 19:15, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 5/6/2013 9:08 AM, Daniel James wrote:
>>>
>>> The first thing to do is add it to the unit tests (by adding it to
>>> status/Jamfile.v2), and get them looking decent.
>>
>>
>> A number of unit tests for TTI depend on the compiler supporting variadic
>> macros. I can add all the TTI unit tests to status/Jamfile.v2 easily enough
>> but for any compiler not supporting variadic macros that subset of the tests
>> will fail. Is that OK, or do I have to do something different for this
>> particular case in status/Jamfile.v2 ?
>
> You can specify tests that are expected to fail in
> status/explicit-failures-markup.xml, but you can do that after adding
> the tests. Which compilers will it fail for?
The tests which assume support for variadic macros will fail for any
compiler/version which simply does not recognize the syntax. There
aren't too many around but I do currently support some pretty early
versions of gcc ( prior to 4+ ) which do not support variadic macros. Of
course the test matrix will probably not even test these early versions.
The equivalent non-variadic versions should not have any problems.
I am also still working on support for Intel and Sun C++ compilers on
Linux and so have not determined yet how much of TTI will work with them.