How do I deal with the max macro in windows.h colliding with max in std?

Question

So I was trying to get valid integer input from cin, and used an answer to this question.

It recommended:

#include <Windows.h> // includes WinDef.h which defines min() max() #include <iostream> using std::cin; using std::cout;  void Foo() {     int delay = 0;     do     {         if(cin.fail())         {             cin.clear();             cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');         }         cout << "Enter number of seconds between submissions: ";     } while(!(cin >> delay) || delay == 0); } 

Which gives me an error on Windows, saying that the max macro doesn't take that many arguments. Which means I have to do this

do {     if(cin.fail())     {         cin.clear(); #undef max         cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');     }     cout << "Enter number of seconds between submissions: "; } while(!(cin >> delay) || delay == 0); 

To get it to work. That's pretty ugly; is there a better way to work around this issue? Maybe I should be storing the definition of max and redefining it afterward?

Answer 1

Define the macro NOMINMAX:

This will suppress the min and max definitions in Windef.h.