I just updated the Inspect tool to find violations of Boost's min/max guidelines (which you can find at http://boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#Guidelines). I just ran the tool with the new -minmax switch to find all the violations in CVS-current. I've attached the report. Some of these are false positives -- violations in comments -- but most look legit. Below is the summary: Library Problems -----------------+---------- algorithm 2 archive 2 config 2 conversion 2 date_time 4 detail 1 graph 20 iostreams 16 multi_index 2 numeric 24 program_options 4 regex 14 serialization 1 spirit 6 -- Eric Niebler Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com /G53G29: Permission denied