Re: [boost] Bug in 1.35: header inclusion order dependencyintroduced between recursive_mutex.hpp and asio.hpp on Windows

From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-01 15:00:54

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:41:49 -0700, David Walthall wrote:

> The issue is not that the ERROR was globally enumerated.  The issue is
> that ERROR is #defined in one of the headers that is included by
> windows.h.  This is, of course, the fault of the windows headers for not
> respecting the set of symbols that it is allowed to define, but it is
> surprising to have otherwise valid code break by the inclusion of a
> boost header.

Oh yuck. I'm sorry about that. windows.h is not fun. Another reason for 
not having header-only libraries to "make it easier" :-)

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Sohail Somani
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