[Development] check, Mate!

[Gábor Lehel]

2012/1/9 Charley Bay <charleyb123 at gmail.com>:
>> Stephen Kelly spaketh:
>>
>> > http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Boost-with-Darwin-Mac-gcc-4-0-1-
>> > td2580330.html
>> >
>> > So, keep in mind - for portability treat 'check' as an out of bounds
>> > name
>> > for a method or variable.
>
>
> Thiago Macieira respondeth:
>>
>> Also to avoid:
>>        sun
>>        m_volume
>>
>> And a hint: whenever you get an error from the compiler that doesn't make
>> sense at all, check the preprocessed output.
>
>
> +1
>
> Some responsible individual should make a list of such things.
>
> Also to avoid:
>
>   - COLOR_BACKGROUND
>   - EXIT_SUCCESS
>   - CopyFile
>   - CreateDirectory
>   - GetDriveType
>   - IsCharAlpha
>
> These are somehow leveraged through MSVS internals and do not respect
> class/namespace boundaries (possibly through the preprocessor, as Thiago
> suggests.)
>
> Each one of the above represent extended periods of suffering for me (due to
> ambiguous compiler and sometimes runtime error), minutes of my life essence
> that I will never get back.
>
> --charley

Yet more:
- major
- minor

These are defined to gnu_dev_major and gnu_dev_minor, I'm not quite
sure by what (GCC? glibc?).