On 08/06/2017 02:59 PM, David Grayson wrote: > I would agree with Martin; I think it's a very good practice for > source files to have an error or not define a function instead of > defining a function that can't possibly work and letting the build > proceed with a broken function. Compiler and linker errors are much > easier to figure out than segmentation faults. > > If you try to do it with autoconf, it's easy for the autoconf layer to > get out of sync with the rest of the source code, or for someone to > decide they want to use their own build system instead of the autoconf > layer. And it won't help very much when porting to a new architecture > like Martin said. > > --David >
The source file could be better split so you don't need to read all of it, and you don't need any preprocessor directives sprinkled about, eg math/asm/arm, math/common, math/asm/x86. As for autoconf, it's here to stay.
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