Compiling on old Digital Unix

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:54:42PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> On 2000.10.21, in <20001022104951.A22431@lacebark.ntu.edu.au>,
> 	"Brian Salter-Duke" <b_duke@lacebark.ntu.edu.au> wrote:
> > 
> > Some C compilers and the DU is one of them ignore lines such as "#ifdef
> > .." unless the # is in the 1st column (showing my Fortran upbringing - I
> > mean the 1st position on the line). This gives lots of errors. It was a
> > boring job to edit out all the spaces and tabs before #. Could the
> > developers please change this? It is a seriously bad thing to do. Not all
> > of us use gcc all the time.
> 
> On some platforms you get a neat compromise by changing:
>     #if foo
>       #ifndef bar
>       #endif /* !bar */
>     #endif /* foo? */
> 
> to:
>     #if foo
>     #  ifndef bar
>     #  endif /* !bar */
>     #endif /* foo? */
> 
> Does that work with the Digital compiler?

Yes, it seems to. I altered a nested set two deep in g10/gpgv.c and it
gave no errors and the object and executable were the same size, so I
guess they are equivalent.

Editing to that format however is just a difficult, but I guess it is
more readable.

Cheers, Brian.
 
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