Re: [boost] [signals] msvc-6.5 failures

From: Bo Persson (bop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-03 09:09:07

Moshe Matitya wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>
>> There are four failures of the signals library on msvc-6.5, like
>> this ...
>
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is MSVC 6.5?  I see that
> there is
> a column for it in the regression test tables, but I don't know
> what it refers to.  I am not aware of any compiler release from
> Microsoft with
> this number.  These are all the C++ compiler releases from Microsoft
> since 1998, as far as I know:
>
> Release     IDE                         Compiler        Internal
> _MSC_VER
> Year        Name                        version         version
> value
> -------     ----                        --------        --------
> --------
> 1998        Visual Studio 6.0           Visual C++ 6.0  12.0
> 1200 2002        Visual Studio .NET          Visual C++ 7.0  13.0
> 1300 2003        Visual Studio .NET 2003     Visual C++ 7.1  13.1
> 1310 2005        Visual Studio 2005          Visual C++ 8.0  14.0
> 1400
>
> When was there a release called 6.5?
>

No there was not. It is just a common name for VC 6.0 with 5 Service Packs 
added.

Bo Persson