On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, kelvinlao wrote: kelvin> Does a failure on the Compiler Status chart kelvin> http://www.boost.org/status/cs-win32.html indicate that a certain kelvin> compiler cannot use the boost libraries fully? kelvin> Take for instance, the failure of Visual C++ reported against kelvin> libs/concept_check/class_concept_fail_expected.cpp: What exactly does kelvin> this failure mean to a user of the boost libraries? Does it render kelvin> the boost library or some portion therein unusable by the VC++ kelvin> programmer? Yes, it usually means some portion is unusable. In this example, it means that the BOOST_CLASS_REQUIRES macro cannot be used with VC++. However, the rest of the concept checking library can be used with VC++. Cheers, Jeremy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy Siek http://php.indiana.edu/~jsiek/ Ph.D. Student, Indiana Univ. B'ton email: jsiek@osl.iu.edu C++ Booster (http://www.boost.org) office phone: (812) 855-3608 ----------------------------------------------------------------------