Re: How to write directly to config.h from configure?

[Warren Young]

On Jul 26, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Jeffrey Walton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>    cat << EOT >> config.h
>      typedef unsigned char byte;
>      typedef unsigned short word16;
>      typedef unsigned int word32;
>    EOT

You’re reinventing C99’s stdint.h here.  Unless you still must build on C89 or 
older compilers, you should just switch.

I get supporting old compilers — I often need to support C++ compilers 10 years 
old or more — but C89 should be safe to drop in most projects by now.