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Re: autoconf for type sizes
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: autoconf for type sizes
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:58:20 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> We could write a probe utility similar to enquire.c and use it to
> generate a bunch of limits-*.h variants which we'd then select in the
> same way.
This seems fairly similar to my proposal except in the details of when the
probe utility is run. Such a probe utility should be more reliable than
enquire, and work fine when cross-compiling.
> options is "use the system float.h". (An option we should have for
> limits.h, by the way, and I don't mean the current incestuous
> recursive crock.)
Only, of course, if we fix (if necessary) the system limits.h to conform
to the standard specified with -std (our responsibility as a conforming
freestanding implementation).
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk