[Insight-developers] ExceptionObject Borland Compile errors

[Bill Lorensen]

This is beyond my C++ expertise. There are other forward declaration
things in other classes. Perhaps Brad or Luis can help.

Bill

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Niels Dekker <niels-xtk at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> Just a heads up that my continuous Borland build is reporting many
>> compile errors after your changes. [...]I'll see if I can send
>> you part of the error log.
>
> Hmmm... Your log says things like:
>
>  Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
>  C:\lorensen\Projects\InsightContinuous\Code\Common\itkDataObject.cxx:
>  Error E2315
> C:\lorensen\Projects\InsightContinuous\Code\Common\itkSmartPointer.h 147:
> 'UnRegister' is not a member of
> 'ExceptionObject::ReferenceCountedExceptionData', because the type is not
> yet defined in function SmartPointer<const
> ExceptionObject::ReferenceCountedExceptionData>::UnRegister()
>
> This looks quite bad! It looks like Borland cannot deal with
> itk::ExceptionObject containing an itk::SmartPointer, pointing to a
> forward-declared class (ReferenceCountedExceptionData).
>
> I need some time to figure out a workaround.  I don't have access to Borland
> this afternoon...  In the meantime, should I undo my commit?  Or do you have
> a workaround?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Niels
>