Constants in conditionals, was Re: Are enums safe to use in portable code?

[Paul Tomblin]

datangua at watmath.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay) writes:
>Oooo I hope not! I occasionally use constants in ifs.
>"if( PATCH_MODE ) { ... }", where PATCH_MODE is a cpp macro (0 or 1).
>I know I coud use #if (or #ifdef), but I find them too ugly. I could also
>use an external, but then I don't get the dead code elimination.

TOO UGLY!  Don't come applying for a job here!  Anybody who doesn't know
how to use all the BASIC aspects of the C compiler, and relys on optimizations
that probably aren't done on most of our machines (pcc based compilers) isn't
going to be too popular at this company, and probably many many others.

Sorry, but #ifdef or #if is SOOO basic, that if you don't know how to use
it (or refuse to for wierd reasons), you loose.
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