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Re: FIX: Error compiling: no member named 'open64'



On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Derek Martin wrote:

Not to take away from what you said, but wouldn't you also say that
this kind of fix for preprocessor weirdness warrants a comment?
Something like:

 /* weird parens fix preprocessor wierdness - don't remove */

I think that would make it far less likely someone down the road would
accidentally "fix" the fix...  I know lots of programmers hate
comments, but this seems like a good place for one to me.  ;-)

I suppose.  But I'd have wrapped the whole thing up in a macro so it's
done only once (and put a comment on the macro).  iirc, the consensus
earlier was to leave 'open' alone and repair it where it became a nuisance.

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