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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




  reply	other threads:[~1998-04-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <352287EE.1CFB@tolstoy.mdc.com>
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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