[webkit-dev] Proposal for a new way to handle porting #ifdefs

Darin Adler darin at apple.com
Tue May 5 07:49:44 PDT 2009


On May 4, 2009, at 7:45 PM, George Staikos wrote:

> 1) In some cases some things apply to more than one OS so we have:
> #if OS(x) || OS(y) || OS(z) ...
> I think we should use:
> #if OS(x,y,z)

How? Macros don’t have overloading with the same macro but different  
numbers of parameters.

> 3) I'm not sure that USE() really applies equally as you described.  
> In some cases it applies to basically the whole system API used  
> (QT), but in others it's just a support library (QUICKTIME).

But why is this distinction important? Does it need to “apply equally”?

     -- Darin



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