BZDEV: Is Blitz still in development?

From: Patrick Guio (patrick.guio@fys.uio.no)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 05:38:47 EST


Dear all,
I am using Blitz in a large PIC simulation project and I am somehow
worried to see that nothing has happened (at least visible to me) in the
cvs repository of Blitz for about a year. Is it a sign that the whole
project has stopped? There will not be any new compiler support? I
especially think of the new HP ANSI C++ compiler aCC which now
complains that Blitz is not compliant enough to the ANSI C++ standard :

Error (future) 641: "./../blitz/vector.h", line 337 # Undeclared variable
'data_'. A variable with the same name exists in a template base class,
but is not visible according to the Standard lookup rules (See [temp.dep],
14.6.2(3) in the C++ Standard).
    You can make it visible by writing 'this->data_'.
            return data_[i * stride_];
                   ^^^^^
or the DEC cxx version 6.3 which when compiling with the option
-std strict_ansi
now fail to compile blitz code while 6.2 did it.

But it is still written on the Blitz home page:

"Not all compilers implement enough of the ISO/ANSI C++ standard to
compile Blitz++."

It looks to me that compilers are getting more compliant than Blitz, isn't
it?

Sincerely,
Patrick

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