[ECOS] no_define
Jonathan Larmour
jlarmour@redhat.com
Thu Jun 21 01:10:00 GMT 2001
Motoya Kurotsu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at test programs of io/wallclock in the latest cvs.
> In wallclock2.cxx, there is such lines like below:
>
> #elif !defined(CYGINT_LIBC_STARTUP_CONTEXT)
> # define NA_MSG "Requires main to be invoked"
> #endif
>
> On the other hand, CYGINT_LIBC_STARTUP_CONTEXT in set as "no_define" in
> language/c/libc/startup/current/cdl/startup.cdl.
> I have a question.
>
> 1) In this case, can I delete no_define property in the startup.cdl?
Yes.
> I have general questions as well.
>
> 2) Is there any general rule whether CDL entity should be set as no_define
> or not?
Whether any code wishes to use that #define.
> 3) Can we delete the no_define property without much consideration generally?
Yes. I don't know any instances where it would be a problem. It could only
be if the CDL name overlapped with an explicit #define in some real header.
But that would be bad practice.
Jifl
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