From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: trouble with MSDOS Macro
Date: 6 Feb 2001 16:18:54 GMT
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Silver <SilverBanana AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
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> Thanks, but I'm writing a C++ library and I've set up several naming
> conventions for this, so I would REALLY appreciate it to call it
> "MSDOS". Besides I'm pretty sure that it is not a good style for DJGPP
> to use nonstandart macros for its own purposes without underscores and
> without documentation. What I need is a way to get DJGPP compatible.

MSDOS is by no means a nonstandard macro, for a DOS compiler. Just
about all of them predefine this macro, AFAIK.  Of course, there are
ways to disable it. In 'gcc -ansi' mode, you'll be rid of it, and only
the ANSI-blessed 'implementor namespace' version __MSDOS__ is still
there.

So I agree with Andris: you really should choose a different namespace
name, here.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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