With apologies for prolonging a tangential topic, I'd like to
sharpen anti-ifdef comments that have been posted already.
1. An ifdef for portability is an admission of nonportability.
What it does is point out a nonportability--a useful crutch
for maintainers, but a crutch nonetheless.
2. Ifdefs violate program structure.
All ifdefs appear at top level. Yet, save for those that control
top-level declarations, they embody conditionals at inner levels
of structure.
Doug McIlroy
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