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Re: Patches for OSTYPE=linux-gnu

To: Morten Eriksen <mortene@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Patches for OSTYPE=linux-gnu
From: Guy Barrand <barrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:13:29 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Jan Prikryl <prikryl@xxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <51n1i414bd.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On 23 Aug 2000, Morten Eriksen wrote:

> > (2) in a dirty way fixes the double vs. float problems (via
> >     -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE)

  Very dirty. It will involves that upper applications
 will need to have these flags and then inducing other
 bunch of mess.

> (I believe the Correct Fix(tm) would be to rip out the block of
> single-precision #define settings from SbBasic.h and hide it in an
> internal-only headerfile. Putting this in a public headerfile was
> _bad_ design.)

  Right

    Guy

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