GPC platforms_(re)

Thu, 29 May 1997 13:15:58 +0100 (WET DST)

On Thu, 29 May 1997, The African Chief wrote:

> On Wed, 28 May 1997 19:41:17 +0200 (MET DST) Peter Gerwinski 
>  wrote:
> 
> >> Is it possible to tell which GPC platform and version is being used?
> >> [...]
> >> This would really help in writing portable code. What do you think?
> >
> >I agree in complete.  Let's ask the list what they think, but I am almost
> >sure that everybody will agree.
> 
> Ok. I am sending this response to the list.
> 
> >> [...]
> >> So, can this be done with GPC? It would help with a lot of things, e.g.,
> >> in the SYSTEM unit - so, could we have these pre-defined in GPC;
> >> 	__LINUX__
> >> 	__UNIX__
> >> 	__DJGPP__ (or __MSDOS__)
> >> 	__EMX__ (or __OS2__)
> >> 	__WIN32__ (or __CYGWIN__)
> >> - depending on which GPC port you are using.
> >


They *are* defined
Run gpc -v and see what's defined if gpc-cpp is executed.

> >Since `__MSDOS__' is ambiguous and with EMX one and the same executable
> >runs on DOS as well as on OS/2 making this a run-time, not a compile-time
> >decision, I vote for `__DJGPP__' and `__EMX__' rather than `__MSDOS__'
> >and `__OS2__'. 
> 
> Yes, I agree.
> 
> >Since I agree with "xxxx"  that Windows 95/NT is
> >not a "win" in the sence of hacker's speech (see `jarg400.info.gz' from
> >the GNU distribution), but Cygnus is, I'd vote for `__CYGWIN__' rather
> >than `__WIN32__', although "Win32" is the official name of that API.
> 
> Yes, "__CYGWIN__" seems fine.
> 

No. Read back the cygwin32 mailinglists.
cygwin32 defines __CYGWIN32__ for code specific for the cygwin32
environment. It also defines _WIN32 for the more generic win32
dependencies. It used to define __WIN32__ but they don't do that anymore
because they figured out that cygwin.dll wasn't presenting a WIN32 API
(that's in kernel32, user32.dll etc. from M$)

DJGPP specific stuff (read: _go32_xxx and _dpmi_xxx functions) are best
surrounded by __DJGPP__
MS-DOS related code (lets's see, something about CRLF conversions for
example) should be surrounded by __MSDOS__ because it applies to EMX too.


> >> and you could have;
> >> 	__VER20__
> >> 
> >> or whatever, depending on the GPC version.

See __GPC_MAJOR__ and __GPC_MINOR__

Greetings,
JanJaap

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