[C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

[David Abrahams]

Christoph Ludwig <ludwig at fh-worms.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:23:20AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Christoph Ludwig <cludwig at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:23:14AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
>> >> Christoph Ludwig <cludwig at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
>> >> > I finally had the spare time to look into this problem again and submitted
>> >> > patch #1324762. The proposed patch implements the following:
>> >> 
>> >> <snip awesome patch>
>> >> 
>> >> Christoph, thanks so much for doing this! 
>> >
>> > You are welcome. It was pretty straight forward once I realized how the C++
>> > compiler is communicated from configure to distutils. But the patch has not
>> > been applied to Python's CVS yet; I don't know how the Python developers think
>> > about it. 
>> 
>> Hmm, maybe I should post encouraging someone to look at this.
>
> FYI, the patch got in.

Great!

IIRC, this had some practical consequences W.R.T. Boost.Python and/or
debug builds of Python, but I can't quite remember what the upshot
was.  Can you?

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Dave Abrahams
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