Re: [PATCH] builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 17, 2006, 17:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhd3ofsyv.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <4fb292fa0605170839r259732dcw1c1bae3f1808db32@mail.gmail.com>

"Bertrand Jacquin" <beber.mailing@gmail.com> writes:

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> Sorry, maybe a C code beginner question but while you define
> NO_H_OPTION_IN_GREP in Makefile, why don't use a build time ``if''
> instead of a runtime one ?
>
> Like :
>
> #if NO_H_OPTION_IN_GREP
>               push_arg("/dev/null");
> #else
>               push_arg("-H");
>               push_arg("--");
> #fi

Exactly because I wanted to avoid conditional compilation using C preprocessor directive (#if).

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