Re: [boost] Re: Better Intel-Win32 support

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-05 09:18:05

At 02:10 AM 6/5/2003, Daryle Walker wrote:

 >On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 3:54 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >
 >> Hum... I just had a thought. Is it possible to detect if wchar_t is a
 >> typedef at compile time?
 >>
 >> Yes, I think so. Won't boost::is_same< unsigned short, wchar_t
 >> >::value be true if wchar_t is a typedef, and false if a distinct > 
type?
 >>
 >> I'll do some experiments.
 >
 >The method you gave may not work.  Who says that "unsigned short" is
 >the type that "wchar_t" rips off?

That's right in general, of course, but the context here is 
<boost/config/compiler/intel.cpp>. For a specific compiler, we know the 
typedef'ed type.

--Beman