Large patch from Ulrich Eckhardt to fix support for EVC++ 4.

[SVN r30670]

include/boost/config/auto_link.hpp

@@ -109,10 +109,16 @@ BOOST_LIB_VERSION:    The Boost version, in the form x_y, for Boost version x.y.
 // select toolset if not defined already:
 //
 #ifndef BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET
-#if defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC == 1200)
+// Note: no compilers before 1200 are supported
+#if defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC < 1300)
 
+#  ifdef UNDER_CE
+     // vc6:
+#    define BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET "evc4"
+#  else
      // vc6:
 #    define BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET "vc6"
+#  endif
 
 #elif defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC == 1300)
 

include/boost/config/compiler/borland.hpp

@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
 #endif
 //
 // MSVC compatibility mode does some nasty things:
+// TODO: look up if this doesn't apply to the whole 12xx range
 //
 #if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER <= 1200)
 #  define BOOST_NO_ARGUMENT_DEPENDENT_LOOKUP

include/boost/config/compiler/comeau.hpp

@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 #  endif
 
 // Void returns don't work when emulating VC 6 (Peter Dimov)
-
+// TODO: look up if this doesn't apply to the whole 12xx range
-#  if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER == 1200)
+#  if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER < 1300)
 #     define BOOST_NO_VOID_RETURNS
 #  endif
 

include/boost/config/compiler/visualc.hpp

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 // turn off the warnings before we #include anything
 #pragma warning( disable : 4503 ) // warning: decorated name length exceeded
 
-#if _MSC_VER < 1300  // 1200 == VC++ 6.0, 1201 == EVC4.2
+#if _MSC_VER < 1300  // 1200 == VC++ 6.0, 1200-1202 == eVC++4
-#pragma warning( disable : 4786 ) // ident trunc to '255' chars in debug info
+#  pragma warning( disable : 4786 ) // ident trunc to '255' chars in debug info
 #  define BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_TYPES_IN_TEMPLATE_VALUE_PARAMETERS
 #  define BOOST_NO_VOID_RETURNS
 #  define BOOST_NO_EXCEPTION_STD_NAMESPACE
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
 
 #if (_MSC_VER <= 1300)  // 1300 == VC++ 7.0
 
-#if !defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS) && !defined(BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_TYPES_IN_TEMPLATE_VALUE_PARAMETERS)      // VC7 bug with /Za
+#  if !defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS) && !defined(BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_TYPES_IN_TEMPLATE_VALUE_PARAMETERS)      // VC7 bug with /Za
 #    define BOOST_NO_DEPENDENT_TYPES_IN_TEMPLATE_VALUE_PARAMETERS
-#endif
+#  endif
 
 #  define BOOST_NO_EXPLICIT_FUNCTION_TEMPLATE_ARGUMENTS
 #  define BOOST_NO_INCLASS_MEMBER_INITIALIZATION
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 #  define BOOST_NO_SFINAE
 #  define BOOST_NO_POINTER_TO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_PARAMETERS
 #  define BOOST_NO_IS_ABSTRACT
+// TODO: what version is meant here? Have there really been any fixes in cl 12.01 (as e.g. shipped with eVC4)?
 #  if (_MSC_VER > 1200)
 #     define BOOST_NO_MEMBER_FUNCTION_SPECIALIZATIONS
 #  endif
@@ -116,7 +117,26 @@
 #  define BOOST_ABI_SUFFIX "boost/config/abi/msvc_suffix.hpp"
 #endif
 
-# if _MSC_VER == 1200
+// TODO:
+// these things are mostly bogus. 1200 means version 12.0 of the compiler. The 
+// artificial versions assigned to them only refer to the versions of some IDE
+// these compilers have been shipped with, and even that is not all of it. Some
+// were shipped with freely downloadable SDKs, others as crosscompilers in eVC.
+// IOW, you can't use these 'versions' in any sensible way. Sorry.
+# if defined(UNDER_CE)
+#   if _MSC_VER < 1200
+      // Note: these are so far off, they are not really supported
+#   elif _MSC_VER < 1300 // eVC++ 4 comes with 1200-1202
+#     define BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION evc4.0
+#     error unknown CE compiler
+#   else
+#     error unknown CE compiler
+#   endif
+# else
+#   if _MSC_VER < 1200
+      // Note: these are so far off, they are not really supported
+#     define BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION 5.0
+#   elif _MSC_VER < 1300
 #       define BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION 6.0
 #   elif _MSC_VER == 1300
 #     define BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION 7.0
@@ -127,6 +147,7 @@
 #   else
 #     define BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION _MSC_VER
 #   endif
+# endif
 
 #define BOOST_COMPILER "Microsoft Visual C++ version " BOOST_STRINGIZE(BOOST_COMPILER_VERSION)
 

include/boost/detail/workaround.hpp

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 //
 // Usage:
 //
-//     #if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, <= 1200)
+//     #if BOOST_WORKAROUND(BOOST_MSVC, < 1300)
+//        // workaround for eVC4 and VC6
 //        ... // workaround code here
 //     #endif
 //
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@
 // first argument must be undefined or expand to a numeric
 // value. The above expands to:
 //
-//     (BOOST_MSVC) != 0 && (BOOST_MSVC) <= 1200
+//     (BOOST_MSVC) != 0 && (BOOST_MSVC) < 1300
 //
 // When used for workarounds that apply to the latest known version 
 // and all earlier versions of a compiler, the following convention