Re: MacOSX: ismac() implementation

[Thomas Treichl]

John W. Eaton schrieb:
> On  6-Oct-2007, Thomas Treichl wrote:
>
> | John W. Eaton schrieb:
> | 
> | > How reliable will this be if you use a different compiler?
> | 
> | I think I can't answer this question by sure, I can only say that __APPLE__ is 
> | the replacement for __darwin__ since MacOSX and __MACH__ seems to be there for a 
> | long time. These macros have been introduced by GNU and are also used on the 
> | Apple Developer website for the one or other example. There seem to be other 
> | proprietary compilers for Mac available but I don't know if they come with these 
> | macros.
>
> OK, I added the ismac function but I just used the
>
>   #if defined (__APPLE__) && defined (__MACH__)
>
> directly in toplev.cc instead of using them to define MACOS since I
> don't see that symbol being used in other places.
>
> Also, I named the field "mac" instead of "macos", but if there are
> good reasons to use "macos" instead, please explain.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jwe

No comments about that, thanks for adding this function. I just added another 
*.diff to this email to replace macos_system with mac_system - with this patch 
and after the compilation of the current CVS sources my Mac ismac() ;-)

  Thomas



--- src/toplev.cc.~1.203.~      2007-10-11 20:46:15.000000000 +0200
+++ src/toplev.cc       2007-10-11 21:29:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@
        }
 
       bool unix_system = true;
-      bool macos_system = false;
+      bool mac_system = false;
       bool windows_system = false;
 
 #if defined (WIN32)