Sorry, but again you're wrong. You may have to work around compiler problems and idiosyncracies (more so in the past than now, but still an issue), but that's the exception and one of the reasons conditional compilation is necessary in C/C++. IMHO, anytime code is written it should be written to the existing standards, but I have also seen a number of cases where a violation of
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:37:23 -0700 Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote: the standard may be necessary. This generally makes code unportable. Today, portability is very important because one is likely to see many different platforms running the same code in the same data center, so it certainly behooves us to write portable, standards compliant code. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9