[C++-sig] pyste, gccxml and boost ublas, random number generator etc

[David Abrahams]

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>Nicodemus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I will quote Brad King, the creator of GCCXML, from the gccxml list in a 
>>>>thread regarding this problem (hope he does not mind):
>>>>
>>>>"As I said the GCC parser cannot always handle the results of 
>>>>preprocessing as if using VC7.1.  In the case of system headers the 
>>>>GCC-XML installation copies and patches them to fix the problems.  In 
>>>>this case all the VC-specific hacks in boost are confusing GCC-XML."
>>>>
>>>>Hopefully Brad can shed some more light in a possible workaround. :)
>>>
>>>I can indeed see the problem if you preprocess for CV++ and are then
>>>exposed to non-standard extensions during the parsing.
>> 
>> 
>> Yeah, but why would you do that when you could preprocess for GCC?
>
> Because that would require a separate gcc to be installed first ?
>
> (The gccxml tarball I unpacked on my linux box doesn't appear to
>   contain anything related to a complete development environment
>   such as system headers.)

Well, that doesn't seem like it ought to be a significant obstacle.
It seems unreasonable to expect GCCXML to process nonstandard MSVC
constructs correctly.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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