Problems with evolving feature test macros?
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Fri Mar 14 14:43:00 GMT 2014
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 for
standards conformance. They're like trigraphs: they waste time only in
the sense that they don't really help developers and they are a minor
annoyance. The less we have of them the better, so tidying them up can
be a win.
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