[Ecls-list] MinGW: pthread types vs. ECL headers

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Samium Gromoff
<_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru>wrote:
>
> The question is, whether it still makes sense to provide that define
> when MinGW already provides one.  I can imagine, though, that history
> proved the MinGW-provided definition to be volatile.


Volatilty was one reason. Another one is that ECL is supposed to provide the
kind of "host" as a macro (mingw, cygwin, etc). In the last months I have
come to realize that this is not good practice, for it pollutes the
preprocessor namespace. I would say moving towards more standard macros, and
providing some sanity checks (that these names do not change or disappear)
would be the desird route.

Juanjo

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