From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: conditional compilation
Date: 2000/08/01
Date: 2000-08-01T18:10:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8666pk6edg.fsf@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccg0oovr91.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:
> [...] So if you're going to use that approach, it's important to make the
> target dependent files as small as possible -- make them contain *only*
> the stuff that really needs to be target dependent.
I do think this is pertinent to any method to manage target dependant
code, ie make it nonexistant or as small as possible, and in addition
write piles of documentation on the why side, mention it in the top
level internal documentation.
> Unfortunately, you might not know which code is target dependent
> ahead of time. [...]
I would say that it is true only when writing your first multi target
software. After that, you get the idea ;-).
--
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
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2000-07-31 0:00 conditional compilation Matthew Woodcraft
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ira D. Baxter
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-01 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby [this message]
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-08-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
2000-08-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-08-03 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Simon Brady
2000-08-01 0:00 ` William J. Thomas
2000-08-02 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-09-19 0:00 Conditional Compilation Kenneth Kueny
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-09-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-19 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-09-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-09-20 0:52 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Jeff Allen
2000-09-20 0:49 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-20 0:47 ` Robert Dewar
2000-10-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Jeffrey Carter
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-09-20 0:44 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-20 1:33 ` tmoran
[not found] ` <8qauu3$7ei$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2000-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-09-25 2:45 ` Ted Dennison
2000-09-25 0:00 ` peter
[not found] ` <39CA31F2.E160F0D8@res.raytheon.com>
2000-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-02 13:27 ` Andrew Hately
2001-01-02 16:46 ` Robert Dewar
1989-12-12 0:08 conditional compilation Emery
1988-06-13 0:24 Conditional compilation Steinar Haug
1988-06-17 13:53 ` rds
1988-06-22 0:44 ` Jeff Bartlett
1988-06-23 13:01 ` Arny B. Engelson
1988-06-27 18:01 ` Dave Seward
1988-06-29 13:32 ` brucej
1988-06-17 14:48 ` rjs
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