Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-11 20:05:12

David Abrahams wrote:
> Tobias Schwinger <tschwinger_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>Still, your "#ifdef suggestion" seems much worse to me -- it might
>>have been just provocative rhetoric rather than a serious proposal, I
>>guess...
> 
> 
> No, it was serious.  But if you don't like #ifdefs there are two other
> proposals on the table that address the problem without using them.
> 

I have nothing against #ifdefs in general and it has nothing to do with personal taste:
 
#ifdeffing (what a wonderful neologism) an interface means: client code that wants to work regardless of whether the macro is defined or not requires #ifdefs as well. 

Further it seems to me a very bad idea to have the interface that's inside a compiled library file depend on other aspects than the what's mangled into the filename (as you most certainly can imagine things can especially get ugly with shared libraries).

Regards,

Tobias