Re: [boost] win32.hpp and min/max macros

From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-29 17:29:28

On Dec 29, 2003, at 1:50 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:

> It seems extremely unwise to be undef'ing min and max.  Evil though 
> they are, many Win32 platform headers (and users' headers!) depend on 
> them, and there is simply no way to write a template or set of 
> overloads that behave exactly as the macros do.

Microsoft suggests defining NOMINMAX: 
<http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;143208>.

How does <afxtempl.h> cope with clients that have set NOMINMAX?

     -- Darin