On 11/9/2017 12:42 PM, Nick Wellnhofer wrote: > On 09/11/2017 15:33, Earnie wrote: >> Testing for !defined(__CYGWIN__) here is meaningless. _WIN32 isn't >> defined in GCC with __CYGWIN__ defined and vice versa. > > I think really old Cygwin versions used to set _WIN32 by default. See > for example this thread from 1998: > > https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-08/msg00569.html > https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00002.html > > I assume you're Earnie Boyd who also participated in this thread, so you > probably know better than me. My guess is that's where the ubiquitous > `defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)` idiom came from. >
Yes, that would be me but I don't know that I know better. Yes, really old Cygwin did. I don't know which versions of GCC stopped the automatic define but anyone using anything that old deserve what they get. > I'd be happy to remove all the `!defined(__CYGWIN__)` checks. I'd say remove it. Doesn't make sense to keep them and only convolutes the code needlessly. -- Earnie _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
