On Wednesday 10 December 2008 21:16, Cathey, Jim wrote:
> >The big advantage of if (FOO) instead of #if FOO is that you always
> >get to compile test all configurations (even if the code it later
> >eliminated by the compiled).
> >
> >That's a pretty big deal as the number of configuration settings go
> >up.
>
> I can see how this would be. I wonder if an appropriate solution
> would be to have, as part of the makefile system and associated
> with a usage convention, a manifold test target wherein the #if's
> were sed-ed into a run-time if() for a test (but thrown away)
> compilation? Something like:
>
> #.*if (.*) -> if (&1) {
> $.*else -> } else {
> #.*endif -> }
scripts/randomtest can be used to test random configs.
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