From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
To: law@cygnus.com, peter@gerwinski.de
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, frank@tim.gerwinski.de
Subject: Re: Predefining __OS_DOS__
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:15:00 -0000
Message-id: <199812080015.QAA13223@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00256.html

>   > What about adding "-D__OS_DOS__" to the `CPP_PREDEFINES' of all
>   > MS-DOS-like operating systems?

Let me comment further...  If we take all groups of two or three or
more defines and introduce a new define for each one and so on, we
have have all uses of defines only every have one define in them, now,
is this a win?

What is easier on mindshare, exponentially many defines all alike, or
exponentially fewer defines that purport to have some meaning?  I
submit that 10,000 defines are not better than 100, and for this
reason, we should _NOT_ do this.

This of a define a signaling, my code/implementation/OS is broken, and
here is why...  Better to have 0 of them.