From: Randy Bowen (rbowen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-04 11:16:49
> A disappointing aspect of this in regards to MSVC 7.0+ is
> that there is no preprocessor macro ( as of 7.0, I haven't
> checked 7.1 yet ) which MSVC defines for distinguishing
> native C++ wide character from the previous typedef for
> wchar_t.
The MS-specific macro _NATIVE_WCHAR_T_DEFINED indicates the presence of
the native type in MSVC 7.0+. However, use of this can cause a number
of problems with existing MS libraries (and especially anything that
deals with COM).