From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: PRECOMPILATION
Date: 1999/02/28
Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccpv6ul7w2.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ahor8$otv@news1.newsguy.com
Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> writes:
> C-experienced people probably expect platform-specific issues to be
> shot through the whole program, like cancer. For instance, if a
> system call's parameter can be 64-bit or 32-bit depending on the
> platform, you may have #ifdefs around every call to it, and every
> declaration of a variable to use as a parameter for it.
Yeah, I've seen lots of code like that. But it seems like a bad way to
do things, no matter *what* language you're using.
- Bob
--
Change robert to bob to get my real email address. Sorry.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-09 0:00 PRECOMPILATION =:-) Vincent
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tucker Taft
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Fraser Wilson
1999-02-18 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Samuel Mize
1999-02-18 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Rakesh Malhotra
1999-02-19 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Samuel Mize
1999-02-18 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION robert_dewar
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Marin David Condic
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION robert_dewar
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Corey Ashford
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION dennison
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tucker Taft
1999-02-09 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-10 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Tom Moran
1999-02-11 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
1999-02-12 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION robert_dewar
1999-02-14 0:00 ` PRECOMPILATION Pascal MALAISE
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