"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote in message news:<cng1lp$2jk$1@sea.gmane.org>...

Very good call - precisely the correct fix! Thank you.

I was never able to see any test results from VC 8.0 since the library

failed to build because of some issue with VC 8.0 and spirit 1.8. I believe this issue has since been resolved but since then testing hasn't been done pending final release of 1.32. Yes, this issue is resolved. I posted a fix some time ago directly at sourceforge. :-)

I'm wondering if this is the only issue in relation to VC 8.0? Were you able to run all the tests and build all the libraries? If so what

kind of results did you get? The library pass 100% with VC 7.1 (no suprise because that's what I use here). Actually, up to now I only compiled the libraries. The current CVS head (with fixes) compiles 100% with VC 7.1 and VC 8.0. I'll try to run the regression tests.

I would hope that accommodating VC 8.0 would entail only the most minimal adjustments. Any insight you can give me here would be interesting. No problems here. The compiler is a little bit closer to ISO.

Also how does one aquire his own copy of vc 8.0 beta - is it worth it?. Try http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/ ... its free ... It does refactoring - but sadly not for C++. It comes with managed C++ - really nice. It contains .Net 2.0 - C# with templates. Sometimes it reminds me of Eclipse.

We're currently using it to develop a filesystem filter driver for Win2k/XP. The driver is C++, the tests are partially (managed) C++ and partially C#. Works nicely ...

Personally I hate dealing with microsoft betas. I give the feed back on problems and the release version has all the same issues. We did report a bug in the new STL (the one that causes boost to break ;-) and it was acknowledged and fixed ...

-- MfG Marvin H. Sielenkemper, PROVISIO GmbH