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Wave: a Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library

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Describes a free and fully Standard conformant C++ preprocessor library
/*=============================================================================
    Wave: A Standard compliant C++ preprocessor

    Definition of the various language support constants
    
    Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Hartmut Kaiser
    http://spirit.sourceforge.net/

    Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software
    License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
    http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

    See Copyright.txt for full acknowledgements.
=============================================================================*/
#if !defined(LANGUAGE_SUPPORT_HPP_93EDD057_2DEF_44BC_BC9F_FDABB9F51AFA_INCLUDED)
#define LANGUAGE_SUPPORT_HPP_93EDD057_2DEF_44BC_BC9F_FDABB9F51AFA_INCLUDED

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
namespace wave {

enum language_support {
//  support flags for C++98
    support_normal = 0x01,
    support_cpp = support_normal,
    
#if defined(WAVE_SUPPORT_VARIADICS_PLACEMARKERS)
//  support flags for C99
    support_variadics = 0x02,
    support_c99 = support_variadics,
    
#if defined(WAVE_ENABLE_CPP0X_EXTENSIONS)
//  support flags for the experimental C++0x features
    support_extensions = 0x04,
    support_cpp0x = support_normal | support_variadics | support_extensions,
#endif // defined(WAVE_ENABLE_CPP0X_EXTENSIONS)
#endif // defined(WAVE_SUPPORT_VARIADICS_PLACEMARKERS)
};

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  need_cpp
//
//      Extract, if the language to support is C++98
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool
need_cpp(language_support language) 
{
    return language == support_cpp;
}

#if defined(WAVE_SUPPORT_VARIADICS_PLACEMARKERS)

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  need_variadics
//
//      Extract, if the language to support needs variadics support
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool 
need_variadics(language_support language) 
{
    return language & support_variadics;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  enable_variadics
//
//      Set variadics support in the language to support
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline language_support
enable_variadics(language_support language, bool enable = true)
{
    if (enable)
        return static_cast<language_support>(language | support_variadics);
    return static_cast<language_support>(language & ~support_variadics);
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  need_c99
//
//      Extract, if the language to support is C99
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool
need_c99(language_support language) 
{
    return language == support_c99;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  enable_c99
//
//      Set, whether to support C99 (alternatively C++98 is supported)
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline language_support
enable_c99(bool enable = true)
{
    return enable ? support_c99 : support_cpp;
}

#if defined(WAVE_ENABLE_CPP0X_EXTENSIONS)
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  need_cpp0x
//
//      Extract, if the language to support is C++0x
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool
need_cpp0x(language_support language) 
{
    return language == support_cpp0x;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//  
//  enable_c99
//
//      Set, whether to support the C++0x features (alternatively C++98 is 
//      supported)
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline language_support
enable_cpp0x(bool enable = true)
{
    return enable ? support_cpp0x : support_cpp;
}

#else // defined(WAVE_ENABLE_CPP0X_EXTENSIONS)

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool
need_cpp0x(language_support language) 
{
    return false;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline language_support
enable_cpp0x(bool enable = true)
{
    return support_cpp;
}

#endif // defined(WAVE_ENABLE_CPP0X_EXTENSIONS)

#else  // defined(WAVE_SUPPORT_VARIADICS_PLACEMARKERS)

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool 
need_variadics(language_support language) 
{
    return false;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline language_support
enable_variadics(language_support language, bool enable = true)
{
    return language;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline bool
need_c99(language_support language) 
{
    return false;
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
inline language_support
enable_c99(bool enable = true)
{
    return support_cpp;
}

#endif // defined(WAVE_SUPPORT_VARIADICS_PLACEMARKERS)

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
}   // namespace wave

#endif // !defined(LANGUAGE_SUPPORT_HPP_93EDD057_2DEF_44BC_BC9F_FDABB9F51AFA_INCLUDED)

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