[MPICH2-dev] Re: MPICH2 1.0.5-rc1 PGI 64-bit compilers

[William Gropp]

Thanks for your report.  Here's an answer to one of your questions:

On Nov 29, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Larry Baker wrote:

>
> An question: If you have no C const (#ifdef HAVE_NO_C_CONST), why  
> not just #define const as nothing?  Or, use CONST where you would  
> normally use const and either #define CONST or #define CONST  
> const?  It would cut down on the number of #ifdef/#else/#endif's,  
> the number of lines of code, and reduce the chance of improperly  
> nested or mispositioned preprocessor conditionals.
>

This was old code that hadn't been updated.  In looking at it, and  
checking for where the various CPP names might be defined, I found  
that most of this was obsolete, and I cleaned up most of this code.

Bill
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