stdint_.h vs intmax_t & uintmax_t

[Mark D. Baushke]

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I have run into a quirk of GNULIB building CVS on a FreeBSD 4.2 host.

It seems that CVS is using m4/intmax.m4 which generate these lines
into the config.h file:

/* Define if you have the 'uintmax_t' type in <stdint.h> or <inttypes.h>. */
/* The size of a `intmax_t', as computed by sizeof. */
/* Define if intmax_t is the first integer type detected with its size. */
#define intmax_t long long
#define uintmax_t unsigned long long

However, the stdint_.h file has the lines

typedef int32_t  intmax_t;
typedef uint32_t uintmax_t;

which can cause a problem...

Observation: On a FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE host, I get the following warnings
when building the md5.c file on the CVS mainline sources...

The problem arises from these two lines

typedef int32_t  intmax_t;
typedef uint32_t uintmax_t;

being expanded into these two lines:

typedef int32_t  long long ;
typedef uint32_t unsigned long long ;

which is clearly not going to do the right thing.

I believe this should probably fixed in the GNULIB sources, but I do not
know what the best fix to suggest might be.

        Thank you,
        -- Mark

source='../../lib/md5.c' object='md5.o' libtool=no \
DEPDIR=.deps depmode=gcc /bin/bash ../../build-aux/depcomp \
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../lib -I..   -I/usr/local/include -Ino/include  
-g -O2 -c ../../lib/md5.c
In file included from ../../lib/md5.h:25,
                 from ../../lib/md5.c:27:
stdint.h:233: warning: `SIZE_MAX' redefined
../config.h:1002: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from ../../lib/md5.h:25,
                 from ../../lib/md5.c:27:
stdint.h:139: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declaration
stdint.h:139: warning: empty declaration
stdint.h:140: warning: useless keyword or type name in empty declaration
stdint.h:140: warning: empty declaration
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