Subject: Re: unix define
To: I presume I need no introduction. <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/17/1998 11:42:32
> Right, right, right...it was a f'rinstance.
> 
> Jonathan Stone sez:
> /*
>  * 
>  * >the presence of things like
>  * ><machine/ieeefp.h>.   You know, small insignificant things like that.
>  * 
>  * When did we get a sys/arch/vax/include/i333fp.h?  ;->).  Don't forget
>  * non-IEEE machines like the vax (and Crays).   Unix != IEEE-754.
>  */

I think the point to take away from this is:

"everybody's got a slightly different notion of what -Dunix should
actually mean."

That means that, from a modern software portability stanpoint, it's
pretty much useless.


cgd