Dealing with compilers that pretend to be GCC

[Miles Bader]

ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Rather than assertions, one could use predicates:
>
>   #if #has_builtin(foo) && #has_attribute(bar)
>   ...
>   #endif
>
> The difference being that (1) predicates were designed specifically for
> this purpose, and (2) there’s no magic involved.

but ... predicates are (1) less portable, since they involve magic
syntax (whereas it's obvious how to make "magic macros" portable)
and (2) deprecated even in gcc...

-miles

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