Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style [check cpp symbol to decide file inclusion]
Message-ID: <2743@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 15 Jan 89 20:43:47 GMT
References: <2688@ficc.uu.net> <293@gsg.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <293@gsg.UUCP>, lew@gsg.UUCP (Paul Lew) writes:
> Sometimes ago when we were porting X11R2 to MSDOS environment, we found out
> that it took a LONG time to compile every file.  One reason was...
> ... many include files will be read and
> then ignored for every cc.

Which is why the Amiga include files explicitly put that #ifdef before each
nested include that everyone has been questioning.
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