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Re: Problems with evolving feature test macros?

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:43:38 -0700
Subject: Re: Problems with evolving feature test macros?
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

Paul appeared to be saying that FTMs are a complete waste of time,

They're not a *complete* waste of time, as they're required forstandards conformance. They're like trigraphs: they waste time only inthe sense that they don't really help developers and they are a minorannoyance. The less we have of them the better, so tidying them up canbe a win.

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