Re: Let's start working!

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

+ Fabio Busatto <fabio.busatto@sikurezza.org>:

| On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:03:52AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
| 
| > > Sure? Are you really sure?
| > Yup.  I said the same thing.  I know Russ knows what he's talking about, 
and I
| > obviously think I do, too.
| 
| Ok, so djb is a novice programmer in your opinion, he used #ifdef in his code 
to
| check for external conditions and compile a piece of code or not.
| 
| $ cat qmail-1.03/*|grep -c '#ifdef'
| 140

Oh, but you have to consider the context in which Russ and Charles
were speaking: That of creating a patch system.  DJB used those
#ifdefs for what they are good at: Adapting source code to work on
different OSes.  It's an entirely different usage.

- Harald