boost/[detail/]limits.hpp questions

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-01 15:39:46

I wonder about the following:

#ifdef BOOST_NO_LIMITS
#include <boost/detail/limits.hpp>
#else
#include <limits>
#endif

Maybe we should be checking BOOST_NO_LIMITS_COMPILE_TIME_CONSTANTS instead
of just BOOST_NO_LIMITS? It seems like we could correct for this VC6/STLport
4.0 deficiency... but then we'd have to put our limits in a different
namespace from std (e.g. boost/detail).

----
#ifndef _WIN32
template<>
class numeric_limits<wchar_t>
  : public _Integer_limits<wchar_t, INT_MIN, INT_MAX>
{};
#else
class numeric_limits<wchar_t>
  : public _Integer_limits<wchar_t, 0, USHRT_MAX>
{};
#endif
Is a test for the target OS really the right one to be doing here?
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Shouldn't we replace BOOST_STL_DECLARE_LIMITS_MEMBER with
BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT?
-Dave