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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