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- <h1>Compiler Status</h1>
- <p>Will all boost libraries work with your compiler?
- Unfortunately, the answer is "it depends.".</p>
- <p>Boost libraries rely on modern C++ features such as templates
- and the C++ Standard Library. Most modern compilers support those major
- features fairly well. But even today, years after
- the adoption of the C++ Standard, some compilers still don't
- support important minor features like partial template specialization.</p>
- <p>Boost library authors often expend a great deal of effort
- trying to work around compiler deficiencies. Nevertheless,
- some libraries will not compile at all with certain compilers or
- may have crippled functionality. Even if the current
- release of a compiler supports a boost library, older version of
- the compiler may not work properly.</p>
- <h2>Compiler Status Tables</h2>
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- <li><a href="cs-linux.html">Linux/x86</a> Contributed by
- <a href="../people/jens_maurer.htm">Jens Maurer</a></li>
- <li><a href="cs-beos.html">BeOS5/Intel</a> Contributed by
- <a href="../people/john_maddock.htm">John Maddock</a></li>
- <li><a href="cs-win32.html">Windows NT / Windows 2000</a>
- Contributed by
- <a href="../people/beman_dawes.html">Beman Dawes</a></li>
- <li><a href="cs-tru64.html">Compaq Tru64 Unix</a>
- Contributed by
- <a href="../people/jens_maurer.htm">Jens Maurer</a>
- in co-operation with Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve</li>
- <li><a href="cs-irix.html">SGI IRIX 6.5</a>
- Contributed by
- <a href="../people/jens_maurer.htm">Jens Maurer</a>
- in co-operation with Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve</li>
- </ul>
- <p>Boost releases are run through a regression test which
- automatically generates the above tables. Unless otherwise
- indicated, the C++ Standard Library implementation is the one
- shipped with the compiler.</p>
- <p>The <a href="regression.cpp">regression.cpp</a> test program was contributed
- by Jens Maurer, generalizing and improving an earlier program by Beman Dawes.
- The <a href="compiler.cfg">compiler.cfg</a> and <a href="regression.cfg">regression.cfg
- </a>configuration files control the test.</p>
- <p><b>Warning:</b> These tables are not a good indication of a
- particular compiler's compliance with the C++ Standard. The
- boost libraries often contain workarounds which mask compiler
- deficiencies.</p>
- <p><b>Warning: </b>Some regression tests are compile
- only tests, or compile-and-link tests; the programs are not executed or otherwise tested. See
- the "Test Type" column in the tables. Even the compilation results may be spurious; many negative
- results stem from problems with the immature test suite rather
- that with the library or compiler. Furthermore, some
- library tests have not yet been included.</p>
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- <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
- s-format="%d %B %Y" startspan -->08 January 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="32180" --></p>
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