[boost] Re: minor min/max regression

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-02 16:42:10

Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
> Le mar 02/03/2004 à 19:05, Eric Niebler a écrit :
>>Guillaume, what purpose is BOOST_NO_STDC_NAMESPACE serving here?
> 
> 
> Good question...
> 
> It never caused any problem (seems like nobody was using the interval
> library with both vc7.1 and stlport). However I don't remember the
> reason it was used for min/max. At first I thought it was necessary for
> G++ 2.95. But I did give it a try and it seems to handle "using
> std::min" even if it should be "using ::min" with this compiler
> (everything was in the root namespace).
> 

If that's the case, then all this preprocessor logic can go away, and 
"using std::min;" is always the right thing to do. I'll check in the fix 
ASAP.

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Eric Niebler
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