On Thursday 24 July 2008 19:35:01 Alex Merry wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2008 08:05:25 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 22:10:21 Alex Merry wrote:
> > > I don't really see why you need to bother with the HAVE_* macros - why
> > > not just use #ifdef SCHED_BATCH and #ifdef SYS_ioprio_set directly?
> > >
> > > IMO, this make the code more readable, because it's immediately obvious
> > > what the #ifdefs guard against.  The HAVE_* macros are really for CMake
> > > checks.
> >
> > Only one reason: in case there is a fancier check one would only have to
> > replace it in one place.
>
> But each check is only used in one place.  And since whether SCHED_BATCH
> and SYS_ioprio_set are defined are exactly what you want to check, there
> are no possible fancier checks that could do a better job.  So it just
> looks like needless obfuscation to me.

OK then. :)
will do the simple checks. Thanks for your help.