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From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent)
To: obrien@NUXI.com (David O'Brien)
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Subject: Re: conditionally including <sys/param.h>
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David O'Brien writes:
> Sorry to have to bring this back to light...
> I was under the impression that we had agreed that
> "#if (defined(__unix__) || defined(unix))" was the best way to
> conditionally include <sys/param.h>.  However, this email from Chuck,
> implies that this is a Bad Thing.
~
> > That test is completely bogus, cause it passes for all sysv systems,
> > which _don't_ have sys/param.h.  It's a completely useless test, and
> > someone justified it by saying that "most systems have a sys/param.h
> > anyhow".

I said exactly this some weeks back and was told I was wrong,
contrary to my own experience of many years working with
sysv r3's. Oh well. :-)

svr4 apparently does have it, but not sysv before that. Most
if not all of those do predefine unix or __unix__.


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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