autoconf for type sizes

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> writes:

| >>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
| 
| Alexandre> In any case, I suppose it would be worth to borrow CVS
| Alexandre> autoconf's _AC_COMPUTE_INT framework, instead of
| Alexandre> re-inventing the wheel in GCC.
| 
| Is there any good reason not to use CVS Autoconf?

Yes.  

When it just works seem to be strongly correlated with the
astrological theme in effect when ./configure is invoked.

It doesn't nicely play with previous releases.  Which means, everyone
will be forced to use the CVS autoconf of the moment.

However I'm not against autoconf people making an official release and
telling us: Well, here is a well tested, official and reference
release; you might want to use it in your project.

-- Gaby
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