Re: [xml] Win32/MSVC Facelift

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:37:32AM -0600, Vakoc, Mark wrote:
> > >   No I don't like this. One extra keyword is enough of a pain, and
> > > this should not impact the declaration itself. I vetoe this out.
>
> > Somehow I knew you would :-) But, I haven't made my point well enough.
>
> I also don't like too many macros if unneeded.

  Okay guys, try to make my life easier. If you could agree first
that would begreat :-)

> > >    XMLPUBLICFUNC
> > >    int xmlSomeFunc(int arg);

  okay assuming this doesn't work what's the best alternative left ?

> various platforms.  On win32 clients, alignmnet was chosen at 1byte
> alignment, but on NT servers 8byte.  I believe the initial concern was

  At that point I am just sorry for you and suggest you switch to a better
computing platform honnestly.

> Have there ever been thoughts on creating a master libxml header that would
> in itself include
> the various other components compiled in (such as tree.h,xpath.c,etc..) and
> client programs would need
> only include the single header?

  No, this is bad programming practice. If you want to do this you can
perfectly do this at your application level.

Daniel

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