[C++-sig] Re: Slice tests failing on MSVC 7.1, 8.0

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 20:47, David Abrahams wrote:
> Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer at earthlink.net> writes:

> > The workaround is to add a prototype that does not have the 'const'
> > qualifier in the function argument - just like with MSVC 7.0 and
> > earlier.
> 
> Yoikes, that's terrible!  I thought they fixed that one for vc7.1.
> Not even for 8.0???

I haven't personally tried with 8.0, but since the error message in the
regression report was verbatim identical to the one for 7.1, I think it
is broken for 8.0 as well.  Intel C++ 7.1 on Windows is "compatable
with" this bug, too.

-Jonathan