Subject: Re: interesting breakage in current toolchain
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/17/1997 12:16:59
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:57:46 -0800 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@ns.feral.com> wrote:

 > Eh? cpp has defined 'unix' since v6 days.

Yes, I know... but there wasn't ANSI C back then, either :-)

 > the i386 cpp defines unix.

Yes, and that is a bug (a known one, actually).  If it's going to define
a symbol like "unix", it should be "__unix__", and programs that use
the old one should be fixed.

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