On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > One fundamental difference is that with the above syntax we always > compile both versions of the code - so we do not end up with one > version that builds and another version that dont. Yes, in that sense it tends to be better to use C language constructs over preprocessor constructs, since error diagnostics and syntax checking is improved. So yeah, I'll give you that it can be an improvement. It's just not what I was really hoping for. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html