This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Patches
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com, bmj2001 at bellsouth dot net
- Subject: Re: Patches
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu,mark at codesourcery dot com
<<This would quickly become an unmaintainable mess of platform-dependent
#ifdefs all over. We don't want to go down that route. I think I
read a paper or two a few years ago about why platform-specific tests
had better be avoided. Unfortunately, I don't recall what papers they
were. Perhaps one of them was a paper about the autoconfiscation of
am-utils (amd), written by Erez Zadok? Yep, see
<<
We hardly need papers to tell us that platform dependent #ifdefs are a
disaster in any code!