Re: Re: Commit: Docbook plugin work

From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 18:38:33 EDT

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Hubert Figuiere wrote:

> Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 23:22, Kenneth J.Davis wrote:
>> > No, this hack is ugly! either work around the problem (trivial)
>>
>> Are you saying that the
>> #define for if (0) ; else for
>>
>> should not be used? why?
>
> C macros to be considered harmful.

In general, yes. But in this case it is _the_ only way to fix a compiler bug
of a vendor. Add that it does not break any other compilers, libraries or
anything, and it's a win-win macro.

This macro is good. If fixes an over 5 year old bug in Microsofts
implementation, and since they are completely reluctant to fix this bug, and
we can fix it without breaking _any_ code, I thing we should do it.

/Mike

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