Brendan Doyle <Brendan.Doyle at Sun.COM> wrote:
> So then there's no avoiding a #ifdef SOLARIS, at least in the short term.
Cleanly written portable code uses fine grained tests and #fdefs....
> > The Linux man pages do have this to say about program_invocation_name
> > and program_invocation_short_name:
> >
> > These variables are GNU extensions, and should not be used in
> > programs intended to be portable.
> >
> Yeah I'm aware of that, but I didn't write the lib. I'm just trying to
> port it and then
> contribute it back to an Open Source community that currently doesn't
> support Solaris,
> and is resistant to any OS specific #defines.
Did you tell them that using program_invocation_name is bad coding style
because it is non-portable?
Knowing about portability issues and writing clean code that used fine grained
#ifdefs is good style. Unconditionally using non-portable features of Linux
needs to be avoided....
J?rg
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