eg wrote:
Tobias Schwinger wrote:
Peter Dimov wrote:
Tobias Schwinger:
Hello,
as you probably know there's a Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 which fixes a significant number of bugs.
Unfortunately _MSC_VER is 1400 for MSVC8 with and without Service Pack, so there is no straightforward way for a library to find out whether SP1 fixes are available or not. What does _MSC_FULL_VER say? I probably should have mentioned it's 140050727 for both versions ;-/.
Can you use registry info somehow?
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/12/17/detecting-visual-studio-2005...
Leaves us with the "reduced" problem of querying the Windows registry with the preprocessor :-). Kidding aside, I think that checking for that PP bug (mentioned in the OP) is the only reasonable option, there is. Unfortunately I don't know how to trigger it (still hoping for someone who has met it personally). Regards, Tobias