Re: [Boost-users] Is there a way for a library to add symbols to the standard headers ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Is there a way for a library to add symbols to the standard headers ?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-01 21:47:30

AMDG

Timothy Madden wrote:
> To write a library to add a POSIX emulation layer on Windows, is there 
> a way to add symbols from my library to C/C++ standard library 
> headers, without getting into recursive inclusion ?

Boost.TR1 does this and it's a horrible mess that only works most of the 
time.

> For example, is there a way to get the 'Additions to fstream' from the 
> boost::filesystem library, actually look like they are added to the 
> standard <fstream> header ?
>
> I know users can use #include "cstdio" (with quotes instead of 
> brackets) throughout a project, in order to later be able to include 
> some local version of the header, if the need for it arise during 
> during some porting at a later time for example.
>
> However this works for user-level code, while for a library it is not 
> that simple any more ...

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe