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Re:Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “linux” as... by blueblob on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @10:00AM (#6521242)
This is awesome, I am going to divide by linux in my code everywhere in an attempt to obfuscate what I am doing.
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Re:Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “linux” as... by _kst_ on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @02:08PM (#6522796)
You should divide by (linux - unix).
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Re:Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “linux” as... by berntb on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @10:20AM (#6521365)
At least anyone trying to port your code to Windows will be a bit surprised... :-)

Edit: Or /.*BSD/. :-(

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Re:Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word “linux” as... by yk on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @10:25AM (#6521391)
Non portability to Windows is a feature.
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