RE: __cygwin__ ++ (RE: getuid() and root)

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:

> > From: Christopher Faylor
>
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:21:38PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen
> > (garbage mail) wrote:
>
> > >I've been thinking that there is a need for a __NOCYGWIN__
> > define too (to
> > >be set when -mno-cygwin is used).
> > >Any thoughts about this? Good(tm) or Bad(tm)?
> >
> > Bad.
> >
> > Rather than cast around in the dark here,
>
> Yes I'm in the dark, thank you I *DO* know that.
>  _THAT IS WHY I'M HERE_ - I've said things inline with that before. You WILL
> most likely read words in style with that - from me - many times over still.

Hannu,

This was not an offensive comment, but a figure of speech.

> >you should be investigating gcc
> > options that tell you what is available.
>
>  I've done that, as you can see below. BUT, as I do "cast around in the
> dark" I haven't got ALL the answers; i.e:
>
> >  I just did this and came up
> > with this incantation:
> >
> >       gcc -dM -E -xc /dev/null
> >
> > There's probably an easier way to do this (and if there is, there will
> > be five responses to this message pointing it out) but try the above
> > command.  Then try:
> >
> >       gcc -mno-cygwin -dM -E -xc /dev/null
> >
> > and compare/contrast the results.
>
> +#define __MINGW32__ 1
>
>  Thanks, that's a good one. I bet I'll be using that one shortly.
>
>  NOW - to remove the "darkness";
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> This has to be *documented* too. That obviously hasn't happened yet.
>
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
> -- UTC+01, DST -> UTC+02  --
> [snip]

Why are you looking for a MinGW-specific #define in Cygwin documentation?
Granted, it doesn't seem to be in MinGW docs either, but isn't that where
you should have looked for it?

FWIW, Google turns up <http://google.com/search?q=mingw+gcc+defined>
	Igor
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