[Simh] 'build' branch updated + on ibm1130 simulator using reserved identifiers and breaking the build

Peter Lund firefly at vax64.dk
Tue Oct 2 18:11:33 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 23:59 +0200, Peter Lund wrote:

> So the options seem to be:
> 1) make a better platform test.
> 2) try to detect features instead (needs help from the build script).
> 3) always use a private implementation of the two functions in question
> and give them a non-reserved name.
> 4) explicitly convert to upper/lower case and then use strcmp/strncmp
> 5) just use strcmp/strncmp
> 
> I prefer #5 because the code becomes simpler but #3 is also good and it
> preserves complete compatibility.  Both are easy to do.

I have implemented #3 in the updated 'build' branch.

-Peter




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