Re: Purpose of BOOST_COMO_STRICT

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-03 13:16:05

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering what the exact purpose of BOOST_COMO_STRICT is. I'd
>> like to use it to produce preprocessor errors when como in strict
>> mode attempts to compile a source file which includes "windows.h"
>
>> Will this macro be defined by the build
>> system on non-windows platforms?
>
> No.
>
>> Also, does it cover "strict errors" mode as
>> well as "strict warnings"?
>
> Don't know. All I do know is that it's defined whenever the "--a"
> options is added.

On Windows, --a mean strict warnings, and --A means strict errors. Would it be
consistent with the purpose of BOOST_COMO_STRICT (whatever that is) to define it
for strict errors, also?

Jonathan