Porting style [was Re: GPG port to TANDEM]

[David Shaw]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:43:33AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> * On 2003.01.14, in <20030114172409.GB6956 at jabberwocky.com>,
> *	"David Shaw" <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
> > 
> > One way to minimize ifdefs growing all over the code is to confine
> > them to a given place and then call that place.  For example, see the
> 
> I thought Werner was ruling out this model, too. (He didn't mention
> anything about frequency or location of ifdefs, just that they were
> "generally unacceptable".) There certainly are other ways besides ifdefs
> to to machine-dependent code, but they seem messier yet.
> 
> But if that's okay, then I misunderstood his meaning. Thanks.

Oh, he may have meant that.  I was only speaking for me ;)

David

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