On 3/16/2012 1:38 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
That's not necessarily a bad thing,
It's very deliberate, and it's *certainly* not a bad thing. No ifs, ands, or
buts about it.
Supporting a new OS by assuming that declarations for some other random OS will
work is a recipe for unending frustration and disaster. For example, suppose
there is a subtle difference in the layout of the FILE* struct. OOPS!
The way the versioning is done it:
1. forces the porter to check that stuff.
2. exposes all the places in the library where there is OS dependent code
There should never, EVER, in the library code be something like:
version (FreeBSD)
... do something weird with FreeBSD ...
else
... do the default ...
If you find any code like this in the library, please file a bugzilla entry for
it.
Instead:
version (FreeBSD)
... do something weird with FreeBSD ...
else
static assert(0, "OS not supported");
