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From: Thamer Al-Harbash <tmh@whitefang.com>
Subject: Re: autconf stdint types checking in guile-core
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 03:28:21 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0304160304010.90801@helena.whitefang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k7dvc6hn.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Rob Browning wrote:

> Actually, this may be hard to get right.  I haven't yet figured out a
> way to get the value of CHAR_BIT either at configure time, or from the
> C compiler at gen-scmconfig time in the cross-compilation case...

Is AC_TRY_RUN at configure time bad for cross compilation? I'm
assuming it is. Otherwise, AC_TRY_RUN a program that includes
limits.h, outputs the number of bits to a temporary file, read it
in and then make sure to put that temporary file in CLEANFILES in
the Makefile.am If CHAR_BITS is not defined put -1 in the file
meaning undefined.

The only other way is to use the preprocessor. I'm fairly certain
using -dM won't be portable everywhere though :|

char_bits=echo "#include <limits.h>" | cpp -dM | awk '/#define.*CHAR_BIT/ { pintf("%s", $3);}'

Using the preprocessor is more friendly to cross compilation
since we'd be, technically, be preprocessing the target hosts
header files.

-- 
Thamer Al-Harbash            http://www.whitefang.com/
	(if (> pressure too-much-pressure)
		'flame 'work)


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-16  7:28 UTC|newest]

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
2003-04-16  6:16 ` Rob Browning
2003-04-16  7:28   ` Thamer Al-Harbash [this message]
2003-04-16  8:59     ` tomas
2003-04-16 12:11   ` Marius Vollmer
2003-04-16 16:22     ` Rob Browning

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