id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 10530 Attempting to define own lexical cast on solaris has to use deprected method Tom Tanner Antony Polukhin "In version 1.41 of boost, it was possible to do (eg this) namespace boost { template <> bool lexical_cast(std::string const &s) { ... }; } In 1.55 this stopped working on sun workshop compiler (Studio 12, version 5.12) saying 'can't find definition in namespace'. I've had to revert to the deprecated pass-by-value declaration but I can't find any documentation that indicates that this is necessary or why it might have changed." Bugs closed To Be Determined lexical_cast Boost 1.55.0 Regression obsolete