On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Waldek Hebisch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl">hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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BTW: I think that it is possible to do compile only test for<br>
sizeof, so in principle ecl could infer the above even when<br>
cross-compiling.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>I was reading the autoconf manual and it said the opposite: that we could not rely on properties of types when cross-compiling, and in particular it mentioned the size.<br>
<br>Also note that what matters to ECL is not the sizeof() but the number of bits. Assuming that # bits = sizeof() * 8 is definitely wrong.<br><br>Juanjo<br><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br>
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