On 08/23/2015 06:32 AM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> $<$<COMPILE_FEATURES:cxx_decltype_incomplete_return_types>:BOOST_RESULT_OF_USE_DECLTYPE>
[snip]
> So, in theory, this will set the definition if the compiler supports 
> decltype, 
> and just don't set it if not. And it works fine for g++. The problem is when 
> it 
> comes to MSVC:
> 
> There is no MSVC version that supports this feature properly, so there is no 
> variable for this compiler defined. Or just think of $FooBarC++, where noone 
> cared to report the supported features. No variable either. For these 
> compilers the above expression fails, because this is no recorded feature of 
> the compiler. I would have expected it to just not set the definition, but 
> not 
> error out.

I haven't investigated in detail but I think this means that the internals
of the COMPILE_FEATURES generator expression need to be taught to tolerate
lack of compile features for the current toolchain to simply return 0.

-Brad

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