Author: Urs Janßen Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Doesn't build with GCC 3.0 (was Re: Release of Exim 3.30)
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:02:46PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > > Exim 3.30 doesn't build with GCC 3.0:
must be platform specific or a very new 'feature' in gcc 3.0, cause I
can't reproduce this on a i686-pc-linux-gnu system with gcc version
3.0 20010608 (prerelease).
> It looks as if gcc 3.0 has printf defined as a macro. IMHO this is
> lunacy.
it would break a lot of existing code, yes.
> There may be other places in the source where I have done this. What do
> the C style gurus on this list think? Is it an unreasonable thing to do?
it's IMHO an ugly but common practice to use ifdefs inside function
parameters. I guess the gcc code will change again...
urs
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