From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-08 04:39:29
> Am I missing something? Is this only useful on Windows? I'd love for
> it to work in general, but I think I have to replicate the logic in my
> build system which means I shouldn't really use it on Windows (since
> my logic will already be there).
It's only useful if your compiler supports it, period.
However, those compilers that do support it typically have a number of
different binary-incompatible build variants: figuring out which lib variant
to link against without it in those cases is tricky, this is a frequent
cause of problem reports caused by picking the wrong variant.
Actually, I could never really understand why more compilers don't support
this :-(
John.