[C++-sig] Useless use of type attributes

[Philipp Thomas]

* David Abrahams (dave at boost-consulting.com) [20051208 06:41]:

> They expand to different things on different compilers.

The only other thing I see is the __declspec.

> Are you sure that no supported platforms need them?  

No, I'm not sure. The only thing I remember is that MSVC only needs it at
declaration. But I've been working on Linux for the last ten years, so my
knowledge of other compilers is sparse at best.

> I seem to recall that older versions of MinGW, in fact, had very odd
> requirements in terms of where those __declspecs were placed.

How do I get answers to this? Ask on the boost ml?
 
Philipp