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Re: Proposal for macros to check for global variables (again)
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: Proposal for macros to check for global variables (again) |
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Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:07:26 -0400 |
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:03:11PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> You could ask that question about AC_CHECK_FUNC, too. The reasons are,
> the variable might not be declared anywhere or where you are looking for
> it (e.g., optind on hosts without unistd.h), or it might be declared and
> you don't have the right libraries. To be sure, you must link.
your test does not distinguish between variables and functions which happen
to have global addresses which are linkable.
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