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- <p>The C preprocessor normally predefines several macros that indicate what
- type of system and machine is in use. They are obviously different on
- each target supported by GCC. This manual, being for all systems and
- machines, cannot tell you what their names are, but you can use
- <code>cpp -dM</code> to see them all. See <a href="Invocation.html#Invocation">Invocation</a>. All system-specific
- predefined macros expand to a constant value, so you can test them with
- either ‘<samp>#ifdef</samp>’ or ‘<samp>#if</samp>’.
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- <p>The C standard requires that all system-specific macros be part of the
- <em>reserved namespace</em>. All names which begin with two underscores,
- or an underscore and a capital letter, are reserved for the compiler and
- library to use as they wish. However, historically system-specific
- macros have had names with no special prefix; for instance, it is common
- to find <code>unix</code> defined on Unix systems. For all such macros, GCC
- provides a parallel macro with two underscores added at the beginning
- and the end. If <code>unix</code> is defined, <code>__unix__</code> will be defined
- too. There will never be more than two underscores; the parallel of
- <code>_mips</code> is <code>__mips__</code>.
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- system-specific predefined macros outside the reserved namespace are
- suppressed. The parallel macros, inside the reserved namespace, remain
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- encourage you to correct older code to use the parallel macros whenever
- you find it. We don’t recommend you use the system-specific macros that
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