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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation
Date: 2000/09/24
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In article <8qauu3$7ei$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> Of course the drawback to this approach is that both
> alternatives have to be compilable. That makes it suitable for
> debug messages (as implied above), but unsuitable for making a
> source file that handles multiple
> host configurations.

Well in a way it is a big advantage that it all has to be
compilable. it is only too common to encouter a large C
file, full of conditional stuff based on say ten different
condition settings, and you just know that no one has
systematically done all 1024 compilations, and sure enough
you try a new combination, and the thing does not even compile,
let alone work.


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