[boost] Re: Novell NetWare support (filesystem), patch

2003-06-20 Thread Petr Ovchenkov
Beman Dawes wrote: > Reading the patch, I see one or two specific differences from POSIX or > Windows, but basically operational functions are treaded as if on a POSIX > platform, while paths are treated as if on Windows. > > Does that mean the Windows API is not available? Or was there some othe

[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT - a little better

2003-06-20 Thread Pavel Vozenilek
"John Torjo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all, > > I was just thinking (actually, I needed this, while doing some coding), that > STATIC_ASSERT could get a little of the SMART_ASSERT flavour. > > What am I talking about? > In case a STATIC_ASSERT fails, how abou

[boost] objects serializing (from comp.lang.c++.moderated)

2003-06-20 Thread Alexander Nasonov
Below is a copy of my post to comp.lang.c++.moderated http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=author:alnsn-mycop%40yandex.ru&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=3eef18d6%40news.fhg.de&rnum=1 --- cut --- Thomas Hansen wrote: > BTW! > Serialization of objects in C++ or any other language for that reason > is one o

[boost] Re: Re: Math Constants Formal Review - using namespacestoselectfloat size is simpler?

2003-06-20 Thread Ken Hagan
Paul A Bristow wrote: > This scheme may offer more surprises to the many naive users (like me) > than an explicit (and convenient 'global') choice, for example: > > using boost::math::double_constants; > > to ensure that the expected size is used. > > One can make the compiler warn you about size c

RE: [boost] Experimental audience-targeted regression results

2003-06-20 Thread Misha Bergal
Oops, sorry That was intended as a private e-mail to Aleksey. My apologies to Peter. Misha Bergal MetaCommunications Engineering ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

Re: [boost] Comments on the "bcp" tool

2003-06-20 Thread John Maddock
> > > However, it seems to be confused by the preprocessor library. > > > Since the > > > includes sometime have the form: > > > > > >#include BOOST_PP_ITERATE() > > > > > > the 'bcp' tool does not find them. For example, > > > "boost/preprocessor/iteration/detail/iter directory is needed by >

[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_WARNING ?

2003-06-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:49:42 -0400, Daryle Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 9:59 PM, David Abrahams wrote: >> Slightly. They are still "non-portable constructions made up by >> compiler makers." > >As I understand it, the #include directive dumps the contents of

Re: [boost] Comments on the "bcp" tool

2003-06-20 Thread John Maddock
> However, it seems to be confused by the preprocessor library. Since the > includes sometime have the form: > >#include BOOST_PP_ITERATE() > > the 'bcp' tool does not find them. For example, > "boost/preprocessor/iteration/detail/iter directory is needed by > boost/function.hpp but is not incl

Re: [boost] Re: Comments on the "bcp" tool

2003-06-20 Thread John Maddock
> Anyone got a Win32 exe of bcp that they could email me? Eventually there probably will be one to download, but it's still developing quite rapidly at present, I'll mail you a binary build though. John. ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lis

Re: [boost] Package for Cygwin distribution

2003-06-20 Thread Reed Hedges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neal D. Becker Jun 19 2003 3:32PM If you are starting out, why not use current cygwin? Do you mean why not use GCC (3.2)? Because 3.2 is buggy and I can't use it with my software. And it would take me quite some time to download it on my slow dialup

RE: [boost] Comments on the "bcp" tool

2003-06-20 Thread Hartmut Kaiser
John Maddock wrote: > > Here is the (main) code, which uses Wave to output the file > names of > > all successfully opened include files (this needs some filtering to > > avoid double output of the same file): > > Interesting, the thing is I need the code to find all > possible dependencies,

[boost] Re: [mpl] workaround needed for Borland

2003-06-20 Thread David Abrahams
Eric Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aleksey (and all), > > In working on porting boost::variant to Borland, I've come across some > trouble with a bug in the compiler. > > Specfically, I'm getting "Cannot have both a template class and > function named 'bind1st'" and similarly for bind2n

Re: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Augustus Saunders wrote: > >PS I'd like to hear more views on this - > >previous review comments were quite different, > >being very cautious about an 'advanced' scheme like this. I didn't react to this review at first because I was a bit disappointed by the content of the li

[boost] Re: Package for Cygwin distribution

2003-06-20 Thread David Abrahams
Reed Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >> > > Neal D. Becker Jun 19 2003 3:32PM >> If you are starting out, why not use current cygwin? >> > > Do you mean why not use GCC (3.2)? > Because 3.2 is buggy and I can't use it with my software. And it

Re: [boost] posix_time to timeval conversion

2003-06-20 Thread Jeff Garland
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:15:11 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote > little precision: > > the posix_time::time_duration type seems to come close to > what I want. However, the documentation isn't very clear on > what 'fractional_seconds()' actually stands for. fractional_seconds is a count. It is relativ

Re: [boost] posix_time to timeval conversion

2003-06-20 Thread Jeff Garland
> I note that boost::posix_time supports on certain platforms > the generation of a ptime from a timeval (using gettimeofday()). > > I have a time class in my own project which can be cast from/to > timeval, so I can use it in conjunction with calls to 'select()', > which expects a timeval pointe

RE: [boost] Re: Re: Math Constants Formal Review - usingnamespacestoselectfloat size is simpler?

2003-06-20 Thread Paul A Bristow
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Hagan | Sent: 20 June 2003 11:27 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [boost] Re: Re: Math Constants Formal Review - | using namespacestoselectfloat size is simpler? | | Paul A Bristow wrot

RE: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Paul A Bristow
| -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Augustus Saunders | Sent: 20 June 2003 01:32 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme | >PS I'd like to hear more views on this - | I do find the prospect of

Re: [boost] Re: Package for Cygwin distribution

2003-06-20 Thread Reed Hedges
Quoting David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Neal D. Becker Jun 19 2003 3:32PM > >> If you are starting out, why not use current cygwin? > >> > > > > Do you mean why not use GCC (3.2)? > > Because 3.2 is buggy and I can't use it with my software. And it > > would take me quite some time to dow

Re: [boost] Licence Proliferation (background and explanation)

2003-06-20 Thread Beman Dawes
At 08:49 AM 6/15/2003, John Maddock wrote: >I've been working on an automated tool to extract and present a list of >boost licences in effect for a given boost library (or collection of >files). >Although the tool is working well, it's throwing up a lot of licences that >are used by just one or t

RE: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme - interval lower andupper values

2003-06-20 Thread Paul A Bristow
It may helpful to those unfamiliar to the Boost Interval library to see some exactly representable values of pi (from test_pi_interval.cpp) // Float 24 bit significand, 32 bit float // static const float pi_f_l = 13176794.0f/(1 << 22); // static const float

Re: [boost] Interest in a message buffer class for the boost library?

2003-06-20 Thread Paul Vanlint
So there seems to be some interest at least from a couple of people. To further clarify what I have, here is a piece of code using my msg buffer class to do a few different things and also, a snippet of the public part of my class definition. At one point there were functions which allowed data t

[boost] Re: Math Constants Formal Review - using namespaces toselectfloatsize is simpler?

2003-06-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:31 +0100, "Paul A Bristow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| Well, you wanted to know what is likely to be accepted. In a >| formal review (this isn't anymore, AFAIU, is it?) I would >| vote no to your approach. > >But would you vote yes if the only presentation was Dani

Re: [boost] [Graph] Improved creation of visitors from functionobjects

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
Douglas Gregor wrote: > Creating new visitors in the BGL can be a pain, because it may require a > lot of extra typing for simple cases. I'd like to add the ability to attach > function objects to visitor events like this: > > dfs_visitor<>() > .do_on_back_edge(var(has_cycle) = true) > .d

[boost] tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
I have a few comments regarding the tokenizer library. 1. The documentation says that char_delimiters_separator is default parameter to 'tokenizer' template, and at the same time says that 'char_delimiters_separator' is deprecated. I think that's confusing and default parameter should be chang

RE: [boost] Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Paul A Bristow wrote: [snip] > | [*] It is not even true. Due to "double rounding" troubles, > | using a higher precision can lead to a value that is not the > | nearest number. > > Is this true even when you have a few more digits than necessary? > Kahan's article suggest

Re: [boost] tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Pavol Droba
Hi, I have no comment about the tokenize library, but if your are interested in the stuff like that, you can have a look into the sandbox. string_algo library already contains this functionality ( along with other interesting features ) and it is implemented in more generic way. Documentation

[boost] Re: tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Alisdair Meredith
Vladimir Prus wrote: > 1. The documentation says that char_delimiters_separator is default parameter > to 'tokenizer' template, and at the same time says that > 'char_delimiters_separator' is deprecated. I think that's confusing and > default parameter should be changed to 'char-separator'. I was

[boost] Re: Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:30:48 +0200 (CEST), Guillaume Melquiond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Paul A Bristow wrote: > >[snip] > >> | [*] It is not even true. Due to "double rounding" troubles, >> | using a higher precision can lead to a value that is not the >> | nearest numbe

[boost] Re: BOOST_STATIC_WARNING ?

2003-06-20 Thread Daryle Walker
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 12:38 AM, Gennaro Prota wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:49:42 -0400, Daryle Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 9:59 PM, David Abrahams wrote: Slightly. They are still "non-portable constructions made up by compiler makers." As I unders

[boost] Formal Review Request: Numeric Conversions

2003-06-20 Thread Fernando Cacciola
Hi All! I hereby request a formal review of the Numeric Conversions library, which can be found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/numeric_conversions.zip Here's an except of the 'Overview' documentation section: -- The Boost Numeric

Re: [boost] Re: Advanced match constants scheme

2003-06-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Gennaro Prota wrote: > >> | [*] It is not even true. Due to "double rounding" troubles, > >> | using a higher precision can lead to a value that is not the > >> | nearest number. > >> > >> Is this true even when you have a few more digits than necessary? > >> Kahan's articl

Re: [boost] Re: Package for Cygwin distribution

2003-06-20 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
--- Reed Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > However, in my experience GCC 3.3 is a lot worse than 3.2, so if That's my experience, too, but I don't use cygwin. General observations: - we had to add a couple of gcc 3.3 specific workarounds to Boo

[boost] Re: Comments on the "bcp" tool

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
John Maddock wrote: >> Another note is on usability. Say I create directory "po" and find that > some >> files are missing. I tweak bcp source and try again. But attempt to > override >> files fail. I remove "po" directory. But then "bcp" says the destination > does >> not exist. It's a bit incon

[boost] Re: tokenizer comments

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
Pavol Droba wrote: > Hi, > > I have no comment about the tokenize library, but if your are interested > in the stuff like that, you can have a look into the sandbox. > > string_algo library already contains this functionality > ( along with other interesting features ) and it is implemented in m

Re: [boost] [BGL] Patch for nonrecursive DFS to fix stack overflow

2003-06-20 Thread Vladimir Prus
Bruce Barr wrote: > Here's a patch to depth_first_search.hpp in BGL in version 1.30.0 of boost > that implements nonrecursive depth first search. This reduces or > eliminates the problem of stack overflow that occurs with DFS in large > graphs. There also may be a performance gain in some cases.