Re: lynx-dev Borland #if (was: lynx2.8.3dev.6)

[Vlad Harchev]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Webmaster Jim wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:14:30AM -0400, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > > Borland C++ Builder can't digest "#if stuff": 
> > can it not digest it (which would make it not meet the language standard),
> > or does it "just" complain a lot?
> > (watcom would complain a lot if one turned on warnings).
> 
> With the makefile switches as distributed with Lynx, the BCB compiler
> fails to compile this module. With the ifs changed to ifdefs, the
> compile succeeds. I guess other switches would alter this behaviour.
> My preference would be to change the code rather than the makefile.

 Subsitituting ifs with ifdefs will possiblly yield different results, so
seems this should be avoided. It seems to me that I remember that Borland's
cpp has switches like "behave ansi-c compatible" or "extended mode". Seems 
that that switch should be tweaked first. Did you?

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 Best regards,
  -Vlad