Thank you John! My question is answered. regards, George --- John Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi George > > > Do you mean _DEBUG is not defined and used by gcc > itself on Linux platform... > > Correct (as far as I am aware). > > >... and it may be used in application code? > > That's a qualified "yes". You *CAN* use it, but > with a caveat. It is > against the C++ standard (ISO 14882) to use it, > since identifiers that begin > with an underscore-followed-by-capital-letter are > reserved. (Also, any > identifier with the underscore-underscore sequence > anywhere in the > identifier are reserved.) > > >...especially the ones from Microsoft Windows > platform... > > That would be one reason to contemplate breaking the > ISO 14882 rules. > > HTH, > --Eljay > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
