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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: conditionally including <sys/param.h>
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:33:25 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199702062019.HAA02499@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 7, 97 07:19:37 am
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> But they certainly should accept anything with __FooBSD__ or BSD >= mmm
> or __FooBSD_version >= nnn.  That would give 100-line ifdefs to support
> 100 OS's.  It's also useless for communicating what is different in
> FooBSD.

Too bad "#if defined()" doesn't accept globbing:

#if defined (_*BSD_)


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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