Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Its crufty old code. I should be removed. It makes no sense to keep > supporting 20 year old compilers (MSVC6 was was released in 1989 and > MSVC7 in 1992 [0]). That's not quite accurate. MSC6 was released in 1989. MSVC was released in 1998. So only 15 years old :).