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verify.h in C++? Boost has me worried.
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
verify.h in C++? Boost has me worried. |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:57:30 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
A student pointed out that Boost has a BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(x) macro
that acts like verify(x) but is defined in a much more-complicated
way. See <http://boost.org/boost/static_assert.hpp>. Boost's version
has special cases for GCC, for MSVC, for SGI MIPSpro, etc., ,etc.
<verify.h> was originally designed for C, but I had thought that it
would work for C++ compilers too. Is there some reason that a C++
implementation would need all that extra complexity to support
<verify.h> properly, or am I missing something?
I'm worried that verify.h will eventually need to gorp similar to Boost's.
- verify.h in C++? Boost has me worried.,
Paul Eggert <=