On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:47:31 -0000, "John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
Sorry, I can't, because I have no access to the VC7's Dinkum.
OK I'll look into it when I get a chance.
Yup, that has happened before I got a chance to read this, thanks :)
I see where you're coming from, so how about just BOOST_GCC/BOOST_BORLAND/BOOST_INTEL etc, probably added on an "as needed" basis.
Everything works for me, as long as it is brief and consistent. I'll post a separate message with the proposed names, just to be sure that everyone reads them (this thread has a quite specific subject - non Intel users could have simply skipped it). About consistency, since the other macros use the vendor name (Intel, Borland, etc.), maybe BOOST_GNU is better than BOOST_GCC.
[Having a numeric ID for each compiler...] Looks a little too complicated to me...
<Just for the sake of discussion> Well, it's not so complicated, really. Instead of having a different macro for each compiler, to be tested with the defined() operator, you have one macro, BOOST_COMPILER (always defined) whose *value* identifies the compiler (1 is Borland, 2 is Comeau, etc.) Genny.