Re: [boost] Compiler identification macros (please comment)

From: Chris Uzdavinis (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-22 14:23:49

Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> writes:

>  BOOST_BORLAND
>  BOOST_COMEAU
>  BOOST_GNU (1)
>  BOOST_INTEL
>  BOOST_MSVC (2)

Though it has been a while, I remember running into problems where the
macros were tricked into thinking it was running Borland C++, and
pulled in bug workarounds for Borland.  The problem was, in reality I
was using Comeau C++ with Borland as the backend C compiler, and some
of the nonstandard workarounds would not compile with Comeau, when
they were not needed in the first place.

Just something to consider if a new compiler-detector scheme is
implemented. 

-- 
Chris