In article <20090908162339.ga11...@cs.hut.fi>, ntti Kantee <po...@cs.hut.fi> wrote: > >Whoever finds this churn worth their effort, as dh pointed out, remember >to replace all instances of __FreeBSD__, __OpenBSD__, __Linux__, >__Slowaris__, __sMackOS__, __etc__ as well.
The issue here is that we really don't want to override the symbols set by the compiler because a lot of code assumes that they are going to be set by the compiler, and not by other external means. Everytime I remember someone did this, it had to be reverted for one reason or the other. christos
