-Dgnu_{linux,hurd}

[Andi Kleen]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

> > Yeah, I saw that.  I wanted to make sure I made this point before he
> > spent too much time on Windows.
> >
> > Isn't it likely that there will be a few other systems with the same
> > needs, too?
> 
> Let's hope not.  We can always back off as needs be, but hopefully we
> can eliminate a lot of these. It would certainly help to make programs
> more portable.

It doesn't look like a good tradeoff for me. I bet there will be much
more problems with programs breaking on Linux because linux isn't defined
anymore than the very unlikely case that you have some other system with
a symbol called linux that means something else. 

While it's theoretically correct following POSIX/ANSI-C it doesn't look like a 
very useful change to me in practice.

-Andi