[Mingw-users] Re: _WIN32?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 18:24:32 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> 
> Yes, for the most part I would like to strongly encouraging people doing 
> WIN32, GO32 and CYGWIN ports to look back over all those #ifdef's and 
> see if they are better served by an autoconf feature test.

I did that, and identified two classes of reasons for uses of such
#ifdef's:

  - to take care of issues relevant to DOSish file names, which can be
    replaced by macros defined in include/filenames.h;

and

  - to handle other issues which are unrelated to file names.

For the first category, I will publish patches I suggest which remove
all the private GDB macros defined in defs.h, and switch to using the
macros from filenames.h instead.

As for the second category, I will post here the relevant code
fragments and ask for suggestions how to proceed with each one of
them.