Re: [boost] [challenge] detect MSVC8 SP1 with the preprocessor

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-12 19:11:53

on Wed Sep 12 2007, Tobias Schwinger <tschwinger-AT-isonews2.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> as you probably know there's a Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 which 
> fixes a significant number of bugs.
>
> Unfortunately _MSC_VER is 1400 for MSVC8 with and without Service Pack, 
> so there is no straightforward way for a library to find out whether SP1 
> fixes are available or not.

See _MSC_FULL_VER :)

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