Re: [Boost-users] [integer]/cstdint.hpp How to use portableliterals?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [integer]/cstdint.hpp How to use portableliterals?
From: Kim Barrett (kab.conundrums_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-10 17:42:42

On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Vicente Botet Escriba wrote:
> I don't see any problem in the above code. Just boost/cstdint.hpp need to
> define INTMAX_C even if not defined by the preceding inclusion of #include
> <something which includes stdint.h>. 
> 
> As Howard has been signaled,  C++0x <cstdint> will define INTMAX_C
> independently of __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS is defined or not.

Oops. I read John Maddock's ".. always define these macros..." as referring to the __STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS and __STDC_LIMIT_MACROS macros. Reading his suggestion more carefully now, I see that wasn't what he meant. I agree that defining INTMAX_C &etc unconditionally is a good idea.