March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 55m
English
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PAL and Platform Macros
The Unix PAL and the portions of the build that contain non-Windows code use a set of macros to probe for platform configuration. They are defined when a host operating system implements particular features, detailed and described in pal/unix/configure.in. These #defines include:
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_PPC_ This is defined when compiling for Motorola PowerPC.
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_X86_ This is defined when compiling for Intel x86.
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BIGENDIAN This is defined on big-endian platforms, and undefined on little-endian platforms.
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HAVE_CASE_SENSITIVE_FILESYSTEM This macro is defined to differentiate filesystems that are case-sensitive, such as FreeBSD, from filesystems that are case-insensitive, such as Windows or HFS+, the default and most frequently used Mac OS X filesystem.
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HAVE_CFSTRING This is defined if Mac OS X CoreFoundation
CFStringis present.-
HAVE_COMPATIBLE_ASIN -
HAVE_COMPATIBLE_ACOS -
HAVE_COMPATIBLE_* This is defined when C runtime math functions produce Windows-compatible results for edge-case values.
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HAVE_POLL This is defined if the
poll( )system call is implemented.-
HAVE_STRTOK_R This is defined if the
strok_r( )API is implemented.-
MMAP_IGNORES_HINT This is set when the
mmap( )system call ignores its hint argument.-
PAL_TRY -
PAL_EXCEPT -
PAL_EXCEPT_EX -
PAL_EXCEPT_FILTER -
PAL_EXCEPT_FILTER_EX -
PAL_FINALLY -
PAL_FINALLY_EX -
PAL_ENDTRY The file
pal/rotor_pal.hcontains the API definitions for the PAL, as well as these macros, which result in calls against the PAL’s exception-handling ...
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