"Giovanni Bajo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Boost mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:59 AM > Subject: Re: [boost] Boost::format, MSVC, BOOST_TESTED_AT > > >> > #if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, BOOST_TESTED_AT(1300)) >> > #error blah >> > #endif >> > >> > always aborts compilation. > >> That's exactly what it's supposed to do. What are you expecting? > > Ok, I read again everything and I eventually got it. The part that was > misleading me was: "It only has value as a comment unless > BOOST_DETECT_OUTDATED_WORKAROUNDS is defined". It's not clear *what* it's > treated as a comment. I thought it was meaning that BOOST_TESTED_AT was > silenty ignored if BOOST_DOW was not defined, thus leading to: > > #if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, <= 1300) > > The previous sentence might be rephrased to "When BOOST_DOW is not defined, > the macro evaluates to != 0, which effectively activates the workaround for > any version of the compiler. When BOOST_DOW is defined, it will issue a > compiler warning or error if the compiler version exceeds the argument".
Great! Why don't you check in a documentation fix? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
