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Asked: 2026-05-14T15:32:05+00:00

There are some new integer types in the Windows API to support Win64. They

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There are some new integer types in the Windows API to support Win64. They haven’t always been supported; e.g. they aren’t present in MSVC6.

How can I write an #if condition to detect if these types are supported by <windows.h>?

(My code needs to compile under many different versions of Microsoft Visual C++, including MSVC6. So I need to provide my own definitions of these types, with an #if to disable them in newer compilers).

(For searchers, the full list of types is: DWORD_PTR, INT_PTR, LONG_PTR, UINT_PTR, ULONG_PTR)

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  1. Editorial Team

    The macro MSC_VER is a value that is within the range [1200, 1300) for MSVC 6. So you can use #if MSC_VER>=1200 && MSC_VER<1300.

    EDIT: As Anders said, this is not really that valid of a test beyond “is my compiler MSVC 6”. However, you can also use:

    #if defined(MAXULONG_PTR)

    Since DWORD_PTR is a value type, it has a maximum value defined for it in basetsd.h.

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