#ifdef WIN32 in setup sources

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 11 17:56:00 GMT 2008


Hi,

can somebody explain to me why we have a lot of places related to
file I/O where setup.exe has two codepaths, along the lines of

  #if defined(WIN32) && !defined (_CYGWIN_)
    ...
  #else
    ...
  #endif

IIUC, the second codepath is never used anyway.  So, why bother?


Corinna

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