Re: [boost] Bug report rejected as conformant

On 1/13/2018 3:40 PM, Olaf van der Spek via Boost wrote:

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:

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I recently reported a preprocessor bug in Oracle C++ 12.6 on their online forum when compiling a C program example. I even cited the C11 standard in

What bug is it about?

Oracle C++ fails two preprocessor tests. I boiled it down to: #define SOME_MACRO(x,y) some_result int main() { SOME_MACRO(); return 0; } Of course calling SOME_MACRO without two arguments is a preprocessor error. Oracle C++ gives only a warning. My point is not about an actual bug but that a compiler decides a bug is not a bug because it gives a warning rather than an error. I find this ludicrous. I know that the VC++ preprocessor is much worse and is not even remotely C or C++ standard conformant. But no one from Microsoft would seriously argue that their preprocessor conformed to the C++ standard. The fact that the Oracle developer actual argues this case is what bothered me and caused my to give up trying to test that compiler or report anything to them.