-----Original Message----- From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pope Sent: 12 March 2015 01:56 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [heap] Mix use of size_t and size_type
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 07:06 AM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
If you're referring to the parentheses around std::min itself, that's a standard defense against #define min().
Thanks, never seen that used before.
This is really quite important to avoid difficult-to-diagnose trouble when using Windows, whose code often makes a daft #define for min. So important, that Boost has a tool to check for it called 'Inspect' that reports all sorts of naughtiness, including this. Build the tool inspect.exe by cd to ?:\modular-boost\tools\inspect and running b2 to build inspect.exe Then cd to the top of your code, eg /libs/your_library and run inspect from there (perhaps inspect.exe > my_inspect.html) You will get some spurious complaints, but you can pick out all uses of min() and max() without protective brackets. Should be, for example, (std::numeric_limits<result_type>::min)() Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal UK LA8 8AB +44 (0) 1539 561830