Re: [Boost-users] Win32: Overloaded std::min and std::max

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-18 06:17:29

> A day ago I stumbled upon a problem using std::min and std::max when 
> having
> included any boost header file on Win32 machine.
>
> The following code should not compile, according to the C++ standard:
>
> float f = 47.9999f;
> long l = 47L;
> std::max(f, l); // This should fail as the arguments aren't of the same
> type.
>
> But using boost (and Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003), it magically did. I
> tracked down the problem and found a 'fix' in
> <boost_1_31_0/boost/config/platform/win32.hpp> that looks like this:

This workaround has been changed in Boost-1.32 and should no longer cause 
this problem.

John.