Detection and versioning of operating systems, compilers, architecture and other element are traditionally done using preprocessor macros. Library like Boost.Predef provides a sanitized interface on top of those but still live in a world where the preprocessor is king.

SPY is a C++17 (and onward) library that gathers similar information and provides a constexpr compatible interface to access those information, thus making their exploitation within constexpr context possible.

Some References

A Short Example

#include <iostream>
#include <spy/spy.hpp>
 
int main()
{
  std::cout << "OS                : " << spy::operating_system      << std::endl;
  std::cout << "CPU Architecture  : " << spy::architecture          << std::endl;
  std::cout << "SIMD Instructions : " << spy::simd_instruction_set  << std::endl;
  std::cout << "Compiler          : " << spy::compiler              << std::endl;
  std::cout << "libc version      : " << spy::libc                  << std::endl;
  std::cout << "libstd            : " << spy::stdlib                << std::endl;
}

Licence

This library is licensed under the Boost Software License:

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	spy v1.1.0 Julienne Aisner