Re: [boost] Microsoft Visual C++ portability hints

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-02-02 17:17:45

Ed Brey wrote:
> For wchar_t, it would be worth adding that a workaround is to include
> <cstddef>, which defines wchar_t, and this workaround is implemented in
> boost/config.hpp.

Thanks.  I've added that.

I believe that <cstddef> actually provides a typedef to short or so,
so I've added a note warning about possible overloading ambiguities,
since wchar_t is not a distinct type as required by the standard.

I haven't checked that, so feel free to correct me.

Jens Maurer