mixing preprocessor directives and C constructs ... ick.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Monday 06 March 2006 9:18 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   i'm aware that what follows is technically correct but it creeps me
> > out just a little.
> >
> >   in fdisk.c, we see preprocessor directives sneaking into C
> > conditional constructs:
> >
> > 	sgi_other_endian = (BYTE_ORDER == LITTLE_ENDIAN);
>
> Did you follow the whole conversation about dead code elimination?
> We _want_ this sort of thing.  (Although the current fdisk.c is
> unlikely to be a good example.)

i'm guessing i didn't.  i'll go back thru the archives.

rday