[C++-sig] Patch implementing void * support

[David Abrahams]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> writes:

> "Niall Douglas" <s_sourceforge at nedprod.com> writes:
>
>> On 24 Jan 2006 at 10:51, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>> All the ones you've posted come with disclaimers or corrections, such
>>> as:
>>> 
>>>   I understand from Roman that I have too many typenames in there, but
>>>   other than this trivial fix the patch works perfectly on GCC.
>>
>> It was literally a case of removing some unnecessary typename 
>> keywords. It didn't take two seconds and at that time I didn't have 
>> access to Linux. I do now.
>>
>> Anyway, it's attached working on GCC 4.0.2 and MSVC 6.0 and 7.1.
>
> So these workarounds that are guarded by
>
>   #ifdef BOOST_MSVC
>
> Are known to be needed on vc7.1 as well as vc6?  What about vc8?
> You ought to be using BOOST_WORKAROUND here.

This really looks careless.  As submitted the patch doesn't compile
because there's a missing

  #include <boost/type_traits/broken_compiler_spec.hpp>

in type_id.hpp

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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