New Alpha_(re)

Sat, 19 Apr 1997 01:21:24 +0100 (WET DST)

On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> 
> Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> 
> > Yes, conditional defines.  GPC pre-defines the symbol "__GPC__":
> >
> >     (*$ifdef __GPC__ *)
> >       (* GNU Pascal switches *)
> >[...]
> >     (*$else *)
> >       (* Borland Pascal switches *)
> >[...]
> >     (*$endif *)
> >
> > What would you consider "simpler" than this? ;-)
> 
> OK, if "__GPC__" is predefined, this is viable. I didn't know about this,
> I tried just "GPC"...
> 


There's more (try `gpc -v' or read the specs file)
The underscores are required by POSIX specifications

> No, it seems to be an installation problem.
> Up to now, I could trace it down to the fact that "-D__GNUC_MINOR__=0(2" is
> passed to cpp if called via gpc, instead of "-D__GNUC_MINOR__=7" with gcc.
> I'm not sure yet why this is so, does it have anything to do with
> "gpc version 2.0(2.7.2.1)"?
>                ^^^

That's a bug. (thanks for finding it ;-)

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