On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:42:23AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:19:14AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:12:30AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote: > > > > 2) Wordsize specific #defines and similar in a header file. > > > > > > Not possible without massive deviation from upstream. > > > > Unless you do it cleanly and push the changes upstream? > > glibc does this in the upstream headers, so why couldn't other > > packages do that as well? > > > > If the only differences are wordsize related, you can e.g. > > portably #include <limits.h> and do: > > The differences are generally because the entire header is > autoconf-generated so really the whole thing would have to be renamed > for each platform and an #if/#include stub put in its place. This is > feasible but ugly and upstream would have little interest in maintaining > such hacks (it's not as if I've ever heard any user cry out for this > "problem" to be solved). It is really not hard to generate the file even in autoconf such that it works for both ABIs. Jakub
