From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: autconf stdint types checking in guile-core Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:54:47 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87wuhvc7h4.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050472517 6098 80.91.224.249 (16 Apr 2003 05:55:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:55:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 16 07:55:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 195ft5-0001aE-00 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:55:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 195ft4-0007kT-02 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 195fsi-0007ed-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 195fsf-0007VF-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 195fse-0007Sx-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2240313CDE; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:54:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E8B152150F3; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:54:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: Thamer Al-Harbash In-Reply-To: (Thamer Al-Harbash's message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:01:19 -0400 (EDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2165 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2165 Thamer Al-Harbash 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 rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel