[Boost-users] Boost.Signals: Suspicious workaround tests

30 Aug 2005

      Yesterday I stumbled about the following tests in boost 1.33:

In signals/detail/named_slot_map.hpp:

class named_slot_map_iterator {
..
#if BOOST_WORKAROUND(_MSC_VER, <= 0x1701)
...
};

In signals/signal_template.hpp

class BOOST_SIGNALS_SIGNAL {
...
#if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, <= 0x1700)
...
};

Are these tests really correct?? I am wondering because _MSC_VER
has the following values (decimal!!)

VC6: 1200
VC7: 1300
VC7.1: 1310

which does not fit to those hexadecimal values, which would correspond
to version number 5888 and 5889 (!).

I know that boost coworkers often have good contacts to compiler 
providers, but that good ... ;-))

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler