Re: [Boost-users] [heap] Mix use of size_t and size_type

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 05:52 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pope Sent: 12 March 2015 01:56 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [heap] Mix use of size_t and size_type

On Thursday, March 12, 2015 07:06 AM, Gavin Lambert wrote:

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If you're referring to the parentheses around std::min itself, that's a standard defense against #define min().

Thanks, never seen that used before.

This is really quite important to avoid difficult-to-diagnose trouble when using Windows, whose code often makes a daft #define for min.

I haven't worked with Windows headers for a while, but I always ensured that NOMINMAX or whatever it was, was defined. Of course, that's not entirely useful if you're writing a library. Ben