Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 08:20:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: GNU cpp bug with pthreads Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950505081709.15400B-100000@miles> In-Reply-To: <9505041814.AA08811@cs.weber.edu>
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On the topic of #if, I have stayed away from it because i have found a
number of 'makedepend' variants that don't recognise '#if !defined ...'
at all.
'makedepend' is too important a tool on large projects to be ignored.
Even if it works on this system, it may not on the next
(port=clone=plagerise?).
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rpt@miles.sso.loral.com | programming language. .... The good news is that |
| C++ supports object-oriented programming. |
| C++ Programming & Fundamental Concepts |
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On Thu, 4 May 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > >On the other hand, #if is not necessarily a valid directive in older
> > >preprocessers.
> >
> > Older than K&R1 (1978)? FreeBSD doesn't attempt to support those.
>
> I didn't say that I didn't personally use '#if' (although I don't use
> '#elif', and would have liked a '#ifclude' to include files only if
> they were there...).
>
> Oh, in traditional mode, the Sun transitional compiler doesn't take
> void, const, or volatile, but will take prototypes.
>
> In non-traditional mode (__STDC__ == 1), it accepts all of them.
>
> In fasciest mode, the AIX compiler (__STDC__ == 2) will not take non
> prototype function declartions (ie: no compatability for formal
> function declarations).
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@cs.weber.edu
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
>
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