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[Sylvain Pion <>]

Wesley Smith a écrit :
> I actually had exactly the same problem yesterday with min and max
> defines.  This was with VS2008.  I had to do the following:
>
>
> #ifdef min
>   #define MIN_MACRO min
>   #define MAX_MACRO max
>   #undef min
>   #undef max
> #else
>   #define MIN_MACRO
>   #define MAX_MACRO
> #endif
>
> /*
> my code
> */
>
> #define min MIN_MACRO
> #define max MAX_MACRO
>
>
> I was kind of surprised that there were macros with names min and max
> in CGAL since these are such common names, they're bound to conflict.

To make it clear: CGAL does not define min/max macros.
It protects itself against those macros which are defined by some
windows header file.

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Sylvain Pion
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Geometrica Project-Team
CGAL, http://cgal.org/