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From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-23 14:08:12


On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 09:45 AM, Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> I suggest to define a BOOST_MSVC to be defined when Visual C++ is used
> (or
> when using other compilers that work in "msvc emulation" mode like
> Comeau -
> but not in strict mode - or Codewarrior),

We have BOOST_MSVC already. See http://boost.org/libs/config/config.htm,
and search for BOOST_MSVC.

> and to modify Boost everywhere so
> that it checks against this macro instead of _MSC_VER.

We normally fix things one at a time rather than doing a global replace.
There are about 90 places that currently mention _MSC_VER, and many of
these should probably be changed to BOOST_MSVC.

     -- Darin


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