> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Andrew Lentvorski
> 
> Stewart Stremler wrote:
> > This does seem to be my impression of a lot of code lately. 
>  But then, 
> > I loathe #ifdefs in code.  I'm just funny that way.
> 
> You are not alone.
> 
> One of the best articles I ever read was in C/C++ User's 
> Journal talking about portable code and how to get rid of 
> #ifdef's.  The big one was to isolate the API to a single 
> file which gets selected at *compile* time by the *build* system.

By chance do you know which issue this was found in?  I'm presently working
on a project to extract any platform specific APIs and move them into their
own architecture file.  Specifically, moving from VxWorks-based to a generic
platform that would allow re-targeting for Linux, Cygwin, whatever.

Thanks,
Jon Wahlmann


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