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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/01/11 20:28, Florian Rathgeber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a sneak preview: when using the current boost release 1.45.0 (which
> isn't packaged on the major distributions yet) DOLFIN build breaks:
> 
> In IntersectionOperatorImplementation there are conflicts with
> boost::optional and the
>   error: dereferencing pointer \u2018<anonymous>\u2019 does break
> strict-aliasing rules
> is thrown (boost/optional/optional.hpp 317, 424)
> 
> It works using gcc 4.5 though, hence it shouldn't be much of a problem
> (unless of course you want to use CUDA: nvcc isn't compatible to gcc 4.5).
> 

Thanks - useful to be proactive in resolving issues like this.

It looks like boost::optional is being used as a bit of sugar.

Andre: can it be easily removed?

Garth

> Florian

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