Re: fixincludes needed on linux?

Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 07:50:57 -0400


Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> Attached are unified diffs of the results.
> Based on the 2.0.35 kernel.
>
> Summary: OS and machine names need to be surrounded with "__"
> and "#endif" directives ought not have labels.

#endif lines can have labels after then (they are ignored by the
preprocessor). This is very useful to document where these blocks of
conditional code end, especially if they are pages long and there are
many nested #if's. Leave them in.

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Brian Gerst

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