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<h2>Portability</h2><a name="Portability" ></a>
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A huge effort has been made to port the library to as many compilers as possible.
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Full support for built-in arrays require that the compiler supports class
template partial specialization. For non-conforming compilers there might be a
chance that it works anyway thanks to workarounds in the type traits library.
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Visual C++ 6/7.0 has a limited support for arrays: as long as the arrays are
of built-in type it should work.
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Notice also that some compilers cannot do function template ordering properly.
In that case one must rely of <a
href="boost_range.html#range_result_iterator"><code >range_result_iterator</code></a>
and a single function definition instead of overloaded versions for const and
non-const arguments.
So if one cares about old compilers, one should not pass rvalues to the
functions.
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For maximum portability you should follow these guidelines:
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do not use built-in arrays,
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do not pass rvalues to <a
href="boost_range.html#begin"><code>begin()</code></a>, <a
href="boost_range.html#end"><code>end()</code></a> and <a href="utility_class.html#iter_range">
<code>iterator_range</code></a> Range constructors and assignment operators,
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use <a href="boost_range.html#const_begin"><code>const_begin()</code></a>
and <a href="boost_range.html#const_begin"><code>const_end()</code></a>
whenever your code by intention is read-only; this will also solve
most rvalue problems,
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do not rely on ADL:
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if you overload functions, include that header <i>before</i> the headers in this
library,
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put all overloads in namespace <code>boost</code>.
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(C) Copyright Thorsten Ottosen 2003-2004. Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
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