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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: #ifdef in Xlibos.h
Message-ID: <90Apr12.014138edt.3569@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 12 Apr 90 05:42:09 GMT
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jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) writes:
>With System V Release 4, there will be undoubtedly be additional hacking
>(we're currently planning to use the symbol SVR4 unless there is a new builtin
>cpp symbol :-).

Please, please, no.  I really wish there were feature based ifdefs
instead of the clearcut SYSV vs. BSD stuff.  Soon we're going to have
SVR4, 4.4BSD, Mach and OSF/1 out there; plus we're going to have
different vendors mixing and matching features from all of them.  With
liberal doses of Posix compatibility thrown in.  And other standards
people haven't invented yet, to misquote the SCO ads.

	Mark.
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Sometimes, it's deja vu all over again.