Re: [boost] Patches for MSVC6

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-22 16:54:41

From: "Jens Maurer" <Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden]>

> Beman Dawes wrote:
>
> > Andreas has supplied patches for these files:
> [...]
>
> > It would be helpful if the various library maintainers would apply them,
if
> > they believe them to be correct.
>
> Note that the patches use _MSC_VER in a lot of places where BOOST_MSVC
> would be more appropriate.
>
> Note also that they add a few functions (for MSVC only) such as
>
> namespace std {
>   inline char* strchr(const char *wstr, int c) { return ::strchr(wstr,
c); }
> }
>
> This will eventually lead to a clash where two boost header files
> do this inline workaround for the same function.

...or where the STLport library (or presumably the new Dinkum library) are
in use.

-Dave