Re: [PATCH] tests: import variables for MSVC.

[Roumen Petrov]

I sent my email before to finish, sorry.

Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Peter Rosin wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:44:25PM CEST:
> > > [SNIP]
> > I'll let Chuck and you hash out and decide all the details on this.
> >
> > One question though: will all of these '#ifdef _MSC_VER' cases need
> > changing as soon as we add support for yet another w32 compiler? In
> > that case, I think the strategy should be reconsidered. The idea is
> > that the sources should ideally not need any, or at least not many,
> > changes in the future. Relying on compiler defines seems like a
> > suboptimal strategy, and should only be done if there is no other way.
>
> I would like to propose different macros for export/import of variables
> in format:
>
> #define XXX(type) decorator_before type decorator_after

I sent my email before to finish, sorry.

Next in code to replace "int foo" with "XXX(int) foo".

About pre-processor flags - better is C code to start with #define 
BUIILD_FOO instead -DBUIILD_FOO in makefile.

Roumen