# pragma warning(disable: 4200) // nonstandard extension used : zero-sized array in struct/union
# pragma warning(disable: 4355) // 'this' : used in base member initializer list
# if (_MSC_VER < 1400) // MSVC 2005 safety checks
# error "Only MSVC 2005 or higher are supported. MSVC 2003 and earlier are not! Upgrade your compiler."
# endif /* (_MSC_VER < 1400) */
# pragma warning(disable: 4291) // no matching operator delete found; memory will not be freed if initialization throws an exception (reason: our overloaded functions never throw an exception)
# pragma warning(disable: 4996) // 'function': was declared deprecated
# pragma warning(disable: 6308) // code analyzer: 'realloc' might return null pointer: assigning null pointer to 't_ptr', which is passed as an argument to 'realloc', will cause the original memory block to be leaked
# pragma warning(disable: 6246) // code analyzer: Local declaration of 'statspec' hides declaration of the same name in outer scope. For additional information, see previous declaration at ...
# if (_MSC_VER == 1500) // Addresses item #13 on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2008/08/11/tr1-fixes-in-vc9-sp1.aspx, for Visual Studio 2008