* Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> Well, IMO this makes it sound too easy.
> If you write portable software, you have to do platform checks.
> Basically they can be done by
> -checking for the existence of files
> -checking if something builds
> -checking the output of running something you just built
Some concerete examples where you really *need* that ?
> The last one is the problem for cross compiling.
> Example: detecting the size of ints
>
> Easy way:
>
> ...
> printf("%d\n", sizeof(long));
> ...
Why not directly using sizeof() in your code ?
cu
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