Re: distinguish solaris 1 (SunOS 4) from solaris 2.x?

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From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 10:07

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In article <Cr4EwE.q@greenie.muc.de> gert@greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) writes:
>I think that's a major design error from sun - no way to determine the
>exact type of machine by C preprocessor statements.

You can actually do this. The byteorder macros let you spot a 386 and 
sizeof(float) [from memory] lets you spot a sparc as does the structure
packing rules. Ok so

	struct blah
	{
		...
	}

#if sizeof(blah) == 12
#define sparc
#else
#define sun3
#endif

is nasty but it works.

Alan

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From: iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: distinguish solaris 1 (SunOS 4) from solaris 2.x?
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