Re: [Boost-Users] Upgrade VisC++ compiler

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 07:11 pm, sen_al2002 wrote:

Hi, I am a newbie to all this programmer stuff. I am a physics student doing some computer simulations. I was trying to use the special function atanh from boost libraries but couldn't.

The error message reads d:\boost_1_28_0\atanh.hpp(77) : error C2989: 'atanh_helper1_t' : template class has already been defined as a non-template class

Some advised me to update my VisC++ ver 6.0 compiler.

How can I do that?

Does anybody out there have any better advise?

Unfortunately, there really isn't any better advice at this time. The special functions library (including atanh) requires a compiler that supports class template partial specialization. Unfortunately, no publicly available version of the Microsoft C++ compiler supports partial specialization, so this won't work with your compiler, and upgrading won't even help. (Unless "upgrading" to you involves switching to another compiler vendor) Doug