I think it would be great to have a boost macro to test. If no one else is aware of a readily-available macro in boost config, maybe you can log a bug and provide a patch to get the ball rolling?
Brian I've never done that before for Boost. Is there a guide you can point me to, on the correct procedures to follow?
It's here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/libs/config/doc/html/boost_config/guide... But to be honest that looks like a BOOST_WORKAROUND rather than a full on config macro to me - the reason being that it just looks like a compiler specific bug plain and simple, rather than a missing feature. As you say, Boost's usage of static constants are probably all in templates which are handled correctly, this is a weird one to be honest! HTH, John.