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Comment by owlstuffing

7 days ago

Overall, this is one of the better C killers I’ve seen. But keeping macros while ditching conditional compilation? That seems completely backward to me. Oh well.

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lerno  7 days ago

What kind of conditional compilation are you missing?

  • spc476  7 days ago

    For adapting code to different versions of libraries for one thing:

        #if defined(__SunOS)
        presult = getprotobyname_r(proto,&result,tmp,sizeof(tmp));
        if (presult == NULL)
          return luaL_error(L,"protocol: %s",strerror(errno));
    #elif defined(__linux__)
        if (getprotobyname_r(proto,&result,tmp,sizeof(tmp),&presult) != 0)
          return luaL_error(L,"protocol: %s",strerror(errno));
    #else
        presult = getprotobyname(proto);
        if (presult == NULL)
          return luaL_error(L,"protocol: %s",strerror(errno));
        result = *presult;
    #endif

    The sometimes annoyingly small differences between platforms.