[Issue 2021] version(linux) is inconsistent

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2021





------- Comment #7 from wbaxter at gmail.com  2008-04-22 20:48 -------
Still seems kind of silly to me.

First because this is D -- why should a D user be expected to have any
knowledge of how GCC usually behaves on Linux.

And second because I think you'd be the first to agree that the way
preprocessor symbols are defined in C/C++ is totally fubar and inconsistent. 
Why perpetuate a broken system?

That said, the way GDC does it, as AFB pointed out, takes the lemon that is DMD
version names, and makes lemonade, by repositioning "linux" as a subcategory of
"Unix".  It would definitely be nice if DMD would pick up this idea and add a
"Unix" version.


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