From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ifdef replacement for GNAT
Date: 1998/04/13
Date: 1998-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1998Apr13.124600.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6gt6ij$q6o@top.mitre.org
In article <6gt6ij$q6o@top.mitre.org>, mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes:
> These are good steps. However, there still needs to be a need for
> conditional compilation for three reasons.
Regardless of the presence of reasons for supporting inline conditional
compilation, I believe the current state of affairs is the correct one,
due to the overwhelming strong reason for _not_ supporting it -- namely
that it will get abused. Take a look at any multi-platform C program.
Larry Kilgallen
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1998-04-08 0:00 ` ifdef replacement for GNAT John T Vegezzi 312C M 237110
1998-04-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Dirk Zoller
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-11 0:00 ` raw
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-11 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1998-04-15 0:00 ` Ada Programming Environment [was ifdef replacement for GNAT] Nick Roberts
1998-04-14 0:00 ` ifdef replacement for GNAT Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1998-04-12 0:00 ` Haug Buerger
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
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