> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> Why is this better than:
>>>>
>>>> #if _MSC_VER == 1400
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Surely this will not be true if _MSC_VER is undefined?
>>> I experienced injustice and the reason of in OSX for it.
>>
>> What was the problem with OSX? Did it throw a warning of you did an
>> equality test on an undefined symbol?
>
> The following if evaluated to true on osx, although I'm pretty sure that
> _MSC_VER isn't defined on osx ;-)
> #if (_MSC_VER < 1300)
> ...
> #endif
>
> replacing it with
> #ifdef WIN32
> #if (_MSC_VER < 1300)
> ...
> #endif
> #endif
>
> fixed the problem.
>
No doubt, but that's quite a different test.
cheers
andrew