Avoiding WIN* macros in GNU code [was Re: [Jim Meyering] Re: [Bug-gnulib] strftime merge from Emacs]

[Derek Robert Price]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    I haven't seen WINDOWSNT used before.
>    Here are some of the window-related macros I have seen:
>
>      _WIN32 WIN32 __WIN32__ __MSDOS__ WINDOWS32
>
> WINDOWSNT is what Emacs uses.  It is a GNU convention that we do not
> use the abbreviation "WIN" to refer to Windows.  Are those names
> used in any GNU packages?
>  

CVS was using it.  I just changed that, aside from a reference in 
lib/system.h to set WOE32 when it found WIN32 defined.

I did notice that gzip/zlib appears to be switching on WIN32 
extensively, at least as of 1.1.4.  I've cc'd the zlib-devel mailing list.

There was also one switch on _WIN32 in the version of GNU diff that CVS 
uses, but we're several releases behind the latest GNU diff release.

Derek

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