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Re: Is there a parameter called _DEBUG?
- From: Lin George <george4academic at yahoo dot com>
- To: John Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>, MSX to GCC <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:42:02 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Is there a parameter called _DEBUG?
Thank you John!
My question is answered.
regards,
George
--- John Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> wrote:
> Hi George
>
> > Do you mean _DEBUG is not defined and used by gcc
> itself on Linux platform...
>
> Correct (as far as I am aware).
>
> >... and it may be used in application code?
>
> That's a qualified "yes". You *CAN* use it, but
> with a caveat. It is
> against the C++ standard (ISO 14882) to use it,
> since identifiers that begin
> with an underscore-followed-by-capital-letter are
> reserved. (Also, any
> identifier with the underscore-underscore sequence
> anywhere in the
> identifier are reserved.)
>
> >...especially the ones from Microsoft Windows
> platform...
>
> That would be one reason to contemplate breaking the
> ISO 14882 rules.
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay
>
>
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