Re: Portability of preprocessor directives

[Earnie Boyd]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > HPUX 9.x's C compiler trashed files starting with an #elif
> > (that's in the early 90's - within the scope of his request).
>
>
> Thanks for mentioning that; I hadn't heard that one.  I found a
> 7-year-old bug report for CVS that mentions the same issue, for HP-UX
> 9.01, in <http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/383/1996/5/0/2114760/>.

If the OS isn't supported by the vendor is it really necessary for new 
releases of the tool to support such a beast.  If a hobbyist is in need 
of an older release, so be it, let the hobbyinsts help each other. 
Otherwise, there is this term known as ``porting'' that comes to mind.

If you make it known that you need testing for a new release and testing 
doesn't happen for the hobbyist, then whose problem is it, yours, I 
think not.  Let the hobbyist test when testing is needed or else remove 
support for the untested in the next release from the current.

Earnie.