Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb: > > > E.g. in python there are tests which call functions and check > > their result to see if we are currently on a platform where > > that function is broken (I think there was such a test for > > poll() and some other functions). > > IMHO, that's broken sw engineering from ground up. Oh? The alternative I see is to do the test at run-time. But that adds to executable size and run-time slowdown on most platforms. Doing it at build time is an improvement, for those people who don't care about cross-compilation. (Not me, you understand.) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html