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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Future of Minix
Message-ID: <208@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 22:30:11 GMT
References: <19654@louie.udel.EDU> <2885@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <2885@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <19654@louie.udel.EDU> V61%DHDURZ1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ronald Lamprecht) writes:
>>The additional code should
>>be included in #ifdef DEBUG -- #endif so that it is possible to generate
>>a fast run-time library and a debugging library version. 
>
>Argh!  I think #ifdefs make code very hard to read and ugly.  I am not all
>that wild about the idea.

Amen!  Perhaps minix should standardize on my DBUG package recently posted
to comp.sources.misc.  Everything is done with macros, so there are no
messy #ifdef's to clutter up the code.  You can quickly train your eye
to simply ignore all the DBUG_<whatever> macros.  Since this package is
completely public domain, such use would have my complete blessing.

-Fred
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