Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:13:36 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
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Subject:	Re: (patch) updated protoize patch
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Mumit Khan wrote:

> I also changed the ``DJGPP'' macro to __MSDOS__ following the rest of gcc. 
> DJGPP seems to yet another namespace polluting macro -- I would think that 
> you guys would use __DJGPP__ instead.

We should use __DJGPP__ when the code uses some feature or function
specific to DJGPP, and __MSDOS__ for code that should work with any
MS-DOS compiler or code that works around some MS-DOS-specific
problem.

What kind of problem/feature are we talking about in this case?

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