On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> Stephane Glondu wrote:
> >On Thursday 21 July 2005 08:52, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> >
> >>The code for "ifndef HAVE_STATS" is still lacking, how should it look
> >>like?
> >
> >
> >I would say raise an exception.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this would be necessary for runtime, but my question was about what to 
> code for compile time when the headers files necessary can't be found?

Do you want it to fail at compile time or run time?  For the former,
use the #error "..." directive.  For the latter, define a function
that always throws an exception.

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