1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 3 4<html> 5<head> 6 <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> 7 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> 8 9 <title>Boost.Compatibilty library</title> 10</head> 11 12<body> 13 <div> 14 <img src="../../boost.png" alt="boost.png (6897 bytes)" align="middle" 15 width="277" height="86"> 16 <hr> 17 18 <h1>Boost.Compatibilty library</h1> 19 20 <p>This library provides workarounds which allow the other Boost 21 libraries to be used on otherwise non-conforming platforms. We hope that 22 it will be possible to remove this library at some time in the future as 23 standard library suppliers become more conforming.</p> 24 25 <h2>Missing C++ standard library CXX headers (e.g <cstdio>) 26 workaround</h2> 27 28 <p>The Python script: <tt><a href= 29 "generate_cpp_c_headers.py">generate_cpp_c_headers.py</a></tt> creates a 30 full set of C++ C header files (e.g. <cstdio>) that are missing on 31 some platforms. The header files created by this script reside in the 32 directory <tt><a href= 33 "../../boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers/">boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers</a></tt>. 34 To use the header files, add this directory to the include file search 35 path. For example:</p> 36 <pre> 37cxx -I/usr/local/boost/boost/compatibility/cpp_c_headers ... 38</pre> 39 40 <p>Supported platforms are:</p> 41 42 <ul> 43 <li>Compaq Alpha, RedHat 6.2 Linux, Compaq C++ V6.3 (cxx)</li> 44 45 <li>Compaq Alpha, Tru64 Unix V5.0, Compaq C++ V6.2 (cxx)</li> 46 47 <li>Silicon Graphics, IRIX 6.5, MIPSpro Compilers: Version 7.3.1.1m 48 (CC)</li> 49 </ul> 50 51 <p>There are more powerful alternatives to using the Boost.Compatibility 52 library CXX headers, e.g. <a href="http://stlport.sourceforge.net">STLport</a> 53 or <a href= 54 "http://www.fnal.gov/docs/working-groups/fpcltf/Pkg/ISOcxx/doc/0ISOcxx.html"> 55 ISOCXX</a>. However, in contrast to these alternatives, the 56 <tt>generate_cpp_c_headers.py</tt> script is very light-weight (less than 57 100 non-comment lines of Python code), much less ambitious, significantly 58 easier to maintain and therefore more suitable as an interim 59 workaround.</p> 60 61 <p>Contributed by Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve.</p> 62 63 <h2>Missing C++ standard library <limits> header workaround 64 <a href="../../boost/limits.hpp">boost/limits.hpp</a></h2> 65 66 <p>Several Boost libraries require the standard library's <limits> 67 header, yet this header is not always supplied by non-conforming 68 compilers and libraries. Header <a href= 69 "../../boost/limits.hpp">boost/limits.hpp</a> simply includes the 70 standard library <limits> header if available, otherwise includes 71 <a href= 72 "../../boost/detail/limits.hpp">boost/detail/limits.hpp</a>. 73 BOOST_NO_LIMITS from <a href="../config/config.htm">boost/config.hpp</a> 74 is used to determine <limits> availability.</p> 75 76 <p>Note also the test program <a href= 77 "../config/test/limits_test.cpp">limits_test.cpp</a></p> 78 79 <p>Contributed by Jens Maurer.</p> 80 81 <p> <br clear="all"></p> 82 <hr> 83 84 <p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img border="0" 85 src="../../doc/images/valid-html401.png" alt= 86 "Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" height="31" width="88"></a></p> 87 88 <p>Revised 89 <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->01 December, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38508" --></p> 90 91 <p><i>© Copyright Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve 2001</i></p> 92 93 <p><i>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See 94 accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or 95 copy at <a href= 96 "http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p> 97 </div> 98</body> 99</html> 100
