id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
3901,ASIO and macro min and max on Windows,habdank@…,chris_kohlhoff,"Dears,

There is little problem with ASIO on windows.
ASIO is using windows.h header.
That header defines ""min"" and ""max"" macros.

So immediately asio is conflicting with standard
<limits> and <algorithm> headers.

The error generated by the compilers is higlhy not readable.
Also regular user of the asio does not know that windows.h
is included and pollute standard C++ code with mentioned
macros.

Try to use 
::std::numeric_limits<int>::min()
::std::numeric_limits<int>::max()
as well as 
::std::min()
together with ASIO.

For users would be perfect if you
could simply put 
#undef min
and 
#undef max
just after inclusion of any windows.h
file.

The problem is more complicated because the
same code is working on Linux,
so from C++ portable code it is uncomfortable
to have such a intrusions.

Best regards,
Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki


",Bugs,closed,Boost 1.43.0,asio,Boost 1.40.0,Problem,fixed,,