Re: [boost] Preventing Compiler ABI Clash headers?

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-21 18:33:55

On Friday 21 November 2003 01:20 pm, Beman Dawes wrote:
> At 09:54 AM 11/21/2003, Douglas Paul Gregor wrote:
>  >This doesn't seem like a win to me, unless we think that the
>  >abi_prefix.hpp/abi_suffix.hpp headers might actually change. It's only
>  >saving 4 lines of boilerplate code per header.
>
> Five. Don't forget the #include <boost/config.hpp>
>
> True, it isn't a lot of lines of code. But it is removing two #ifdefs, and
> that seems to me to be a worthwhile win when it comes to readability and
> understandability of code.

Okay, fair enough. But can we put them in, say, boost/config/abi_prefix.hpp 
and boost/config/abi_suffix.hpp? The boost/ header directory is getting 
rather...extensive.

        Doug