Feature request - a macro defined for GCC

Paul Koning Paul_Koning@dell.com
Thu Jul 3 18:04:00 GMT 2008


>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:

 Ralf> I feel like I'm stating the obvious, but maybe you're just
 Ralf> trying to rediscover feature-based tests: do a test compile
 Ralf> that exposes the compiler bug or feature you're looking for.

 Ralf> Autoconf provides a framework that supports this kind of
 Ralf> testing, among others.

Autoconf is a massively cryptic and complicated way to make up for the
lack of "I have feature X" CPP flags in the compiler.

Chris is right, that's the correct way to do things.

      paul



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