I agree, #ifdef is sometimes the best tool for the job. I didn't mean that it's always wrong, but it does tend to be overused in my experience. For instance, ha

I agree, #ifdef is sometimes the best tool for the job. I didn't mean that it's always wrong, but it does tend to be overused in my experience. For instance, hardcoding assumptions about the target platform when a dynamic lookup could have been used instead. E.g. compare old skool hardcoded addresses in Linux drivers to modern devicetrees.