On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Stefan Teleman wrote:

> Except for the fact that I am not getting "wound up now about changes that
> were introduced in the public release in September '08", since the public
> release in September '08 did not provide #ifdef guard conditionals for
> either __SUNPRO_C or __SUNPRO_CC at all.

I'm sure that's true, but that's only the appliction-side if things. The code
within libcurl still switched to the new approach.

Thus the risk for ABI breakage was real nonetheless.

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  / daniel.haxx.se