On 6 March 2013 13:07, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev@gmail.com> wrote:
I wonder if we could simply drop detail/limits.hpp (and always rely on compiler-provided numeric limits)
boost/detail/limits.hpp is almost never used nowadays. It's only included from boost/limits.hpp, using: #ifdef BOOST_NO_LIMITS # include <boost/detail/limits.hpp> #else # include <limits> #endif BOOST_NO_LIMITS is only defined in 'boost/config/stdlib/sgi.hpp'. Does anyone still use that configuration? I suppose it might also be defined in a custom configuration or by a user. It's quite likely that the header is incompatible with other STL implementations anyway. So I suspect it's only effectively used in code that is already subject to the SGI license (i.e. the header is only included when already using the SGI libraries), although I don't know if that makes a difference legally.