From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: autconf stdint types checking in guile-core
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:54:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wuhvc7h4.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0304151446160.86988@helena.whitefang.com> (Thamer Al-Harbash's message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:01:19 -0400 (EDT)")
Thamer Al-Harbash <tmh@whitefang.com> writes:
> I looked at the autoconf tests for the types and would like to point
> out that they may break on exceptionally exotic architectures. The
> problem is, as most probably know, that the C standard has always
> defined sizeof(char) to return 1 byte. The definition of byte though
> is not necessarily an 8 bit storage unit. It's whatever CHAR_BIT is
> set to via limits.h
Hmm. You're right, and that's definitely my fault. I knew better,
but forgot to go back and fix that up before I committed. I'll fix it
now.
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-15 19:01 autconf stdint types checking in guile-core Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-04-16 5:54 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-04-16 6:16 ` Rob Browning
2003-04-16 7:28 ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-04-16 8:59 ` tomas
2003-04-16 12:11 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-04-16 16:22 ` Rob Browning
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