Re: [rfa] configure: new variable HAVE_UINTPTR_T

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:45:46AM -0600, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Draft #3.  Following Daniel J's advice, I use AC_CACHE_CHECK and the
> multi-argument form of AC_DEFINE.  I re-tested with and without
> uintptr_t in /usr/include/stdint.h to hit both paths.
> 
> I also learned that config.in is a regenerated file, not a hand-edited
> file.  And by using multi-argument AC_DEFINE I dropped the change to
> 
> I don't show diffs for regenerated 'configure' and 'config.in'.  I
> regenerated with stock autoconf 2.13 and autoheader 2.13 from
> ftp.gnu.org.
> 
> Again, this is so that the gdb build can do something better when
> it needs uintptr_t and doesn't have it (pr gdb/660).  My notion of
> 'something better' is going to be to spit out a better error message,
> not to actually work.  Somebody has to have a really old libc
> (more than 3 years old) to get this message, but with millions of
> users, some people do.
> 
> OK to commit?

Yes, thank you.

> 2003-02-26  Michael Chastain  <mec@shout.net>
> 
> 	* configure.in: New variable HAVE_UINTPTR_T.
> 	* configure, config.in: Regenerated.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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