RFC: architecture define probably masks variable names in header files

Christian Thalinger twisti at complang.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Jan 23 21:21:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:04 -0800, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> I very much suspect that this -D$(ARCH) could be removed with no consequences.
> The difficult part would be verifying it.
> 
> C macros are a very powerful tool, but some of the global names we have chosen
> over the years have come back to haunt us. :^(

Can someone tell me where these defines are used?  Roughly, in which
part of the code.  Will a simple grep get me to the correct solution?

- twisti




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