[boost] [challenge] detect MSVC8 SP1 with the preprocessor

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-12 18:51:08

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.

The release notes of that Service Pack mention a fixed bug in the 
preprocessor messing up line counting in certain situations, so it seems 
there could be a way to implement a detection mechanism in the 
preprocessor on top of it...

Solutions anyone?

Regards,
Tobias