Re: the Athena trick vs. the Sound trick
>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic
<hniksic(a)iskon.hr> writes:
> * Each time a new inclusion macro needs to be written, you have
> to redo the AIX test. I concede that this is not very
> satisfactory.
Hrvoje> That kills it IMO. AIX /per se/ is of course not the
Hrvoje> issue. The issue is that only God knows how many more
Hrvoje> compilers have exactly the same problem. These #ifdef's
Hrvoje> scattered through code might only increase.
But at least the build will fail in an obvious way. That won't be
true if you fail to fix all the Makefile.in.in special rules, as I
understand it. There, you're likely to run into an already fixed
compiler bug, right?
From what I know now, I'm with dv (and apparently -bp) on this
one.
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