Here are some of the cpp macros used, together with some short explanation of their use. Feel free to add more macros and more categories. ** Distinguishing OSes ** MAC_OS8 Compiling for Mac OS Classic (v8 or v9). No longer supported, all code using it can be removed. MAC_OSX Compiling for Mac OS X. Not bare Darwin. CYGWIN Compiling the Cygwin port. __CYGWIN__ Ditto MSDOS Compiling the MS-DOS port. __MSDOS__ Ditto. __DJGPP__ Major version number of the DJGPP library for the DOS port. __DJGPP_MINOR__ Minor version number of the DJGPP library. __GO32__ Compiling the DOS port with DJGPP v1.x (obsolete). DOS_NT Compiling for either the MS-DOS or native MS-Windows port. WINDOWSNT Compiling the native MS-Windows (W32) port. __MINGW32__ Compiling the W32 port with the MinGW port of GCC. _MSC_VER Compiling the W32 port with the Microsoft C compiler. USE_LISP_UNION_TYPE Define it in lisp.h to make Lisp_Object be a union type instead of the default int. ** Distinguishing GUIs ** HAVE_NTGUI Use the native W32 GUI for windows, frames, menus&scrollbars. MAC_OS Compiling for the `mac' window-system. HAVE_CARBON Compile support for the Carbon GUI. Requires MAC_OS? HAVE_NS Use the NeXT/OpenStep/Cocoa UI under Mac OS X or GNUstep. NS_IMPL_GNUSTEP Compile support for GNUSTEP implementation of NS GUI API. NS_IMPL_COCOA Compile support for Cocoa (Apple) implementation of NS GUI API. HAVE_X11 Compile support for the X11 GUI. HAVE_X_WINDOWS Compile support for X Window system X11 ?? Makefile.in suggests it's equivalent to HAVE_X11 USE_LUCID Use the Lucid toolkit for menus&scrollbars. Requires HAVE_X11. USE_MOTIF Use the Motif toolkit for menus&scrollbars. Requires HAVE_X11. USE_GTK Use the Gtk toolkit for menus&scrollbars. Requires HAVE_X11. ** Frame types ** FRAME_TERMCAP_P A tty (character terminal) frame. FRAME_X_P A frame on X Window system. FRAME_MSDOS_P An MS-DOS frame (used only by the DOS port). FRAME_MAC_P A Mac frame. FRAME_W32_P A frame using native MS-Windows GUI. FRAME_WINDOW_P A GUI frame (like X, w32, etc.) ** Compile-time options ** REL_ALLOC Compile in the relocatable memory allocator ralloc.c. SYSTEM_MALLOC Use the system library's malloc. subprocesses System can use subprocesses (for M-x shell for example). Defined by default, only MSDOS undefines it. ** Replace, the definition is trivial: SWITCH_ENUM_CAST ** Defines from src/m/*.h and src/s/*.h. Some of these might not be used in the code anymore, so they can be removed. The HAVE_* definitions are probably handled by autoconf, so it might be possible to just remove them from src/[sm]/*.h. AIX AMPERSAND_FULL_NAME BCOPY_DOWNWARD_SAFE BCOPY_UPWARD_SAFE BITS_PER_EMACS_INT BITS_PER_LONG BROKEN_DATAGRAM_SOCKETS BROKEN_FIONREAD BROKEN_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME BROKEN_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECT BROKEN_PTY_READ_AFTER_EAGAIN BROKEN_SA_RESTART BROKEN_SIGAIO BROKEN_SIGIO BROKEN_SIGPOLL BROKEN_SIGPTY BSD4_2 BSD4_3 BSD_PGRPS BSD_SYSTEM BSTRING CANNOT_DUMP CLASH_DETECTION COFF COFF_BSD_SYMBOLS CRT0_DUMMIES C_DEBUG_SWITCH C_SWITCH_MACHINE C_SWITCH_SYSTEM C_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS C_SWITCH_X_SYSTEM DATA_SEG_BITS DATA_START DBL_MIN_REPLACEMENT DECLARE_GETPWUID_WITH_UID_T DEFAULT_SOUND_DEVICE DEVICE_SEP DIRECTORY_SEP DONT_REOPEN_PTY DOUG_LEA_MALLOC DebPrint EMACSDEBUG EMACS_CONFIGURATION EMACS_CONFIG_OPTIONS EMACS_INT EMACS_UINT END_FILES_1 EXPLICIT_SIGN_EXTEND FILE_SYSTEM_CASE FIRST_PTY_LETTER FLOAT_CHECK_DOMAIN FSCALE Fread GAP_USE_BCOPY GC_LISP_OBJECT_ALIGNMENT GC_MARK_SECONDARY_STACK GC_MARK_STACK GC_SETJMP_WORKS GMALLOC_INHIBIT_VALLOC GNU_LIBRARY_PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT GNU_LINUX GNU_MALLOC HAVE_AIX_SMT_EXP HAVE_ALLOCA HAVE_AVAILABILITYMACROS_H HAVE_BCMP HAVE_BCOPY HAVE_CBRT HAVE_CLOSEDIR HAVE_CRTIN HAVE_DUP2 HAVE_EUIDACCESS HAVE_FMOD HAVE_FPATHCONF HAVE_FREXP HAVE_FSYNC HAVE_FTIME HAVE_GETCWD HAVE_GETDOMAINNAME HAVE_GETHOSTNAME HAVE_GETLOADAVG HAVE_GETPAGESIZE HAVE_GETPT HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY HAVE_GETWD HAVE_H_ERRNO HAVE_INDEX HAVE_INET_SOCKETS HAVE_INVERSE_HYPERBOLIC HAVE_LIB64_DIR HAVE_LIBKSTAT HAVE_LIBNCURSES HAVE_LIBPTHREADS HAVE_LIBXMU HAVE_LIMITS_H HAVE_LINUX_VERSION_H HAVE_LOGB HAVE_LONG_FILE_NAMES HAVE_LRAND48 HAVE_MENUS HAVE_MKDIR HAVE_MKTIME HAVE_MOUSE HAVE_PERROR HAVE_PSTAT_GETDYNAMIC HAVE_PTYS HAVE_PWD_H HAVE_RANDOM HAVE_RENAME HAVE_RES_INIT HAVE_RINDEX HAVE_RINT HAVE_RMDIR HAVE_SELECT HAVE_SETLOCALE HAVE_SETPGID HAVE_SETRLIMIT HAVE_SETSID HAVE_SHUTDOWN HAVE_SOCKETS HAVE_SOUND HAVE_STDLIB_H HAVE_STRERROR HAVE_STRFTIME HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_STRUCT_UTIMBUF HAVE_SYSINFO HAVE_SYSV_SIGPAUSE HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO_H HAVE_SYS_TIMEB_H HAVE_SYS_TIME_H HAVE_TCATTR HAVE_TERMIO HAVE_TERMIOS HAVE_TERMIOS_H HAVE_TEXT_START HAVE_TIMEVAL HAVE_TM_ZONE HAVE_TZSET HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_UTIMES HAVE_UTIME_H HAVE_VOLATILE HAVE_WINDOW_SYSTEM HAVE_WORKING_VFORK HAVE_XRMSETDATABASE HPUX IBMR2AIX INHIBIT_X11R6_XIM INTERNAL_TERMINAL INTERRUPT_INPUT IS_ANY_SEP IS_DIRECTORY_SEP KERNEL_FILE LDAV_SYMBOL LD_SWITCH_MACHINE LD_SWITCH_MACHINE_TEMACS LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_TEMACS LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM_tmp LD_SWITCH_X_DEFAULT LIBS_DEBUG LIBS_MACHINE LIBS_SYSTEM LIBS_TERMCAP LIBX11_SYSTEM LIBXMU LIB_GCC LIB_MATH LIB_MOTIF LIB_STANDARD LINKER LINK_CRTL_SHARE LINUX_VERSION_CODE LISP_FLOAT_TYPE LNOFLSH LOAD_AVE_CVT LOAD_AVE_TYPE LOCALTIME_CACHE MAIL_USE_FLOCK MAIL_USE_LOCKF MAIL_USE_POP MAIL_USE_SYSTEM_LOCK MAXPATHLEN MAX_PRINT_CHARS MIN_PTY_KERNEL_VERSION -- only used on Mac MODE_LINE_BINARY_TEXT MULTI_KBOARD MUST_UNDEF__STDC__ NARROWPROTO NEED_BSDTTY NEED_ERRNO NEED_LIBW NEED_UNISTD_H NLIST_STRUCT NOMULTIPLEJOBS NONSYSTEM_DIR_LIBRARY NOT_C_CODE NOT_USING_MOTIF NO_ABORT NO_ARG_ARRAY NO_EDITRES NO_HYPHENS_IN_FILENAMES NO_MATHERR NO_REMAP NO_SHARED_LIBS NO_SOCK_SIGIO NO_TERMIO NSIG NSIG_MINIMUM NULL NULL_DEVICE ORDINARY_LINK OTHER_FILES O_APPEND O_BINARY O_CREAT O_EXCL O_RDONLY O_RDWR O_TEXT O_TRUNC O_WRONLY PAGESIZE PENDING_OUTPUT_COUNT POSIX POSIX_SIGNALS PREFER_VSUSP PTY_ITERATION PTY_NAME_SPRINTF PTY_OPEN PTY_TTY_NAME_SPRINTF PURESIZE RUN_TIME_REMAP SA_RESTART SECTION_ALIGNMENT SEGMENT_MASK SEPCHAR SETPGRP_RELEASES_CTTY SETUP_SLAVE_PTY SHARABLE_LIB_BUG SIGALRM SIGCHLD SIGHUP SIGKILL SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS SIGPIPE SIGQUIT SIGTRAP SIGTYPE SOLARIS2 START_FILES START_FILES_1 STDC_HEADERS SYMS_SYSTEM SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA SYSTEM_TYPE SYSTEM_MALLOC SYSV_SYSTEM_DIR Srandom TAB3 TABDLY TERM TERMINFO TEXT_END TEXT_START THIS_IS_CONFIGURE THIS_IS_MAKEFILE TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME TIOCSIGSEND TM_IN_SYS_TIME ULIMIT_BREAK_VALUE UNEXEC UNIX98_PTYS USE_CRT_DLL USE_MAC_IMAGE_IO USE_MMAP_FOR_BUFFERS USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS USG USG5 USG5_4 USG_SUBTTY_WORKS VALBITS VIRT_ADDR_VARIES VMS WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN WRETCODE XINT XOS_NEEDS_TIME_H XPNTR XSET XUINT _AIX _ARCH_PPC64 _CALLBACK_ _FILE_OFFSET_BITS _LP64 _MALLOC_INTERNAL _NAIVE_DOS_REGS _VARARGS_ _WINSOCKAPI_ _WINSOCK_H __ELF__ __FreeBSD__ __FreeBSD_version __GNUC__ __GNU_LIBRARY__ __GNUC_MINOR__ __NetBSD__ __OpenBSD__ __STDC__ __arch64__ __cplusplus __hpux __ia64__ __linux__ __mc68000__ __mips__ _longjmp _setjmp _start abort access alloca bcmp bcopy brk bzero calloc chdir chmod chown close const creat ctime dup dup2 edata emacs etext execlp execvp fdopen fileno fopen free fsync ftruncate fwrite getdefdir getdisk getenv getpid getuid gmtime i386 index init_process isatty kill link linux localtime logb lseek m68k malloc mkdir mktemp open pclose pipe popen random read realloc rename rindex rmdir sbrk select sigmask signal sigsetmask sleep spawnve srandom strdup strerror stricmp strnicmp strupr sys_nerr system temacs tzname tzset umask unix unlink utimbuf utime vfork wait write xfree # 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