On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:28:39AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. Just to clarify - my comment was solely related to the usage of if (HAVE_*) versus #ifdef. I had nothing to do with the actual discussion which I do not try to follw . Sam - 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
