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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Generally I tend to eschew conditional compilation[*]. [...]
> [*] With the occasional exception isolated to a header file.

All sensible people do.  In almost all cases such platform
dependencies should be hidden and abstracted away well out
of sight (such as in a header) of the main code body.