Re: adding to GHC/win32 Handle operations support of Unicodefilenamesand files larger than 4 GB

Am Freitag, 25. November 2005 14:38 schrieb Simon Marlow:

[...] If you want to make it clearer, then add new CPP symbols

WIN32_UNICODE_FILENAMES WIN32_64BIT_OFFSETS

these can be set based on mingw32_HOST_OS for now, but it leaves the possibility of using autoconf later. [...]

Perfect solution for a lazy programmer... ;-) More seriously: Perhaps I was a bit unclear, I don't propose to use an autoconf test for each and every tiny detail. Using feature-based #ifdefs and #defining them manually in a single well-known place based on the platform is often enough. Avoiding the annoying "What the hell does this #ifdef really test??"-questions is the point here... Cheers, S.