Pretty please: no more lower-case macros !!!
    Chris Pressey 
    cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
       
    Thu Jan  6 08:25:50 PST 2005
    
    
  
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:03:37 +0000
Adrian Bocaniciu <a.bocaniciu at xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > If you want to be portable, #define POSIX_SOURCE or what it is
> > called and don't include sys/* files.
> 
> 	I do not refer to new code, but to the huge number of existing
> *BSD ports.  Most of these ports *MUST* include sys/*, net/* etc.
> headers, as there is no other way to accomplish their functions.
Then they will always be non-portable and will always risk breaking
(until those headers are standardized by some body.)
This has nothing really to do with macros; this is because C doesn't
have namespaces.
-Chris
    
    
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