version and debug statements

[Bruno Medeiros]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I suppose that depends what "Unix" means to you.  

I don't know exactly what it means. My knowledge of what exactly is 
"Posix" is also very dim.
I just wanted to mention this detail, I'll leave the thinking on this 
subject to you[plural you].


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