Re: [Boost-users] Why is BOOST_OS_WINDOWS defined on Linux

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Why is BOOST_OS_WINDOWS defined on Linux
From: David Demelier (markand_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-05-04 12:34:43

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 11:54:41AM +0000, Chris Glover wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2018 at 01:57 David Demelier <markand_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Just curious, is there some coding convention in boost? I just realized
> > predef is the only one component that I use which use .h header suffix
> > instead of .hpp.
>
> There are some rough guidelines here:
> 
> https://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html

Thanks, that is handy!

> "Files intended to be processed by a C++ compiler as part of a translation
> unit should have a three-letter filename extension ending in "pp". Other
> files should not use extensions ending in "pp". This convention makes it
> easy to identify all of the C++ source in Boost."
> 
> So, the .h files don't require a C++ compiler and could be used in C.

Understood, thanks for that quick replies!

Regards,

-- 
David