...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
BOOST_FOREACH
uses some fairly sophisticated techniques
that not all compilers support. Depending on how compliant your compiler is,
you may not be able to use BOOST_FOREACH
in some scenarios.
Since BOOST_FOREACH
uses Boost.Range,
it inherits Boost.Range's
portability issues. You can read about those issues in the Boost.Range
Portability section.
In addition to the demands placed on the compiler by Boost.Range,
BOOST_FOREACH
places additional demands in order to handle
rvalue sequences properly. (Recall that an rvalue is an unnamed object, so
an example of an rvalue sequence would be a function that returns a std::vector<>
by value.) Compilers vary in their
handling of rvalues and lvalues. To cope with the situation BOOST_FOREACH
defines three levels of compliance, described below:
Table 13.1. BOOST_FOREACH Compliance Levels
Level |
Meaning |
---|---|
Level 0 |
Highest level of compliance |
Level 1 |
Moderate level of compliance |
Level 2 |
Lowest level of compliance |
Below are the compilers with which BOOST_FOREACH
has been
tested, and the compliance level BOOST_FOREACH
provides
for them.
Table 13.2. Compiler Compliance Level
Compiler |
Compliance Level |
---|---|
Visual C++ 8.0 |
Level 0 |
Visual C++ 7.1 |
Level 0 |
Visual C++ 7.0 |
Level 2 |
Visual C++ 6.0 |
Level 2 |
gcc 4.0 |
Level 0 |
gcc 3.4 |
Level 0 |
gcc 3.3 |
Level 0 |
mingw 3.4 |
Level 0 |
Intel for Linux 9.0 |
Level 0 |
Intel for Windows 9.0 |
Level 0 |
Intel for Windows 8.0 |
Level 1 |
Intel for Windows 7.0 |
Level 2 |
Comeau 4.3.3 |
Level 0 |
Borland 5.6.4 |
Level 2 |
Metrowerks 9.5 |
Level 1 |
Metrowerks 9.4 |
Level 1 |
SunPro 5.8 |
Level 2 |
qcc 3.3 |
Level 0 |
tru64cxx 65 |
Level 2 |
tru64cxx 71 |
Level 2 |