Re: Pretty please: no more lower-case macros !!!

[Chris Pressey <cpressey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:03:37 +0000
Adrian Bocaniciu <a.bocaniciu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > If you want to be portable, #define POSIX_SOURCE or what it is
> > called and don't include sys/* files.
> 
> 	I do not refer to new code, but to the huge number of existing
> *BSD ports.  Most of these ports *MUST* include sys/*, net/* etc.
> headers, as there is no other way to accomplish their functions.

Then they will always be non-portable and will always risk breaking
(until those headers are standardized by some body.)

This has nothing really to do with macros; this is because C doesn't
have namespaces.

-Chris