version and debug statements

[Bruno Medeiros]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm still naively hoping for both of "version (Unix)"
>>>
>>> DMD supports Windows and Linux; Unix is neither. For a compiler which 
>>> targets the Unix operating system, it should set the Unix version.
>>
>> It does... I was just hoping to be able to use the same code for both ?
>>
>> GDC has chosen "Unix" as the name for all of them, while Ares uses 
>> "Posix". The naming doesn't matter as much, as long as it is defined.
> 
> For what it's worth, I chose "Posix" because it refers to the API rather 
> than to a subset of systems that support that API.  But I agree that 
> both are sufficiently general that they could be considered equivalent.
> 

Are they (equivalent)? How about Cygwin which "is a DLL implementing 
most of the POSIX API on top of Windows". Does it count as Unix? How can 
this fit into D's (current or alternative) versioning scheme of things?


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