I found some documentation problems in the Boost Configuration Reference, and possibly some obsolete symbols in the configuration headers. These comments all apply to the boost_1_29_0 release. Here are the specifics:
1. The config headers may define BOOST_NO_STD_WSTREAMBUF which is not mentioned in the documentation; however, the documentation mentions BOOST_NO_STD_WSTREAM which is not defined in any config header, but is used in <boost/format/format_fwd.hpp> libs/format/test/format_test1.cpp 2. No config header defines BOOST_HAS_PTHREAD_YIELD, although it is described in the documentation. It is used in some tests and one place in Boost Threads. 3. BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION is defined in the config headers, but is undocumented and unused. 4. BOOST_DECL is defined in the config headers, but is undocumented and unused except in test libs/config/test/config_info.cpp. 5. BOOST_HAS_MPTASKS is defined in the config headers, but is undocumented. It is used only in Boost Threads. 6. BOOST_NO_CWTYPE is defined in the config headers, but is undocumented and unused. 7. BOOST_STD_EXTENSION_NAMESPACE is defined in the config headers and widely used, but is undocumented. 8. The documentation states, in guidelines to Boost authors, "Boost files that use macros defined in <boost/config.hpp> should have sensible, standard conforming, default behavior if the macro is not defined. This means that the starting point for porting <boost/config.hpp> to a new platform is simply to define nothing at all specific to that platform. In the rare case where there is no sensible default behavior, an #error message should describe the problem." Aren't there some macros, such as BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT, BOOST_USE_FACET, BOOST_NESTED_TEMPLATE, etc., that you can count on always being defined to something, even on (the mythical) fully standard-conforming platforms? --------------------------------------------------------- Kevin S. Van Horn, Ph.D. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin S. Van Horn & Associates | www.ksvanhorn.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
