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From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: conditional compilation
Date: 2000/08/02
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Date: 2000-08-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Simon Brady (see@below.for.email.address) wrote:
: Ted Dennison wrote:
: > 
: > I've often had to figure out someone else's large C program that was
: > chock full of target-dependent #ifdef's. Its a *nightmare*.

: C source loaded up with #ifdefs isn't really C
: source - it's a template for generating C source.

There is a thread on this topic (plus on related included #includes)
in comp.os.plan9, entitled "Installing the updates", in which
Rob Pike and Howard Trickey offer their view.