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Re: How to write directly to config.h from configure?
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Jeffrey Walton |
Subject: |
Re: How to write directly to config.h from configure? |
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Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:26:50 -0400 |
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Warren Young <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, we changed minimum requirements to C++03 recently (from C++98).
The problem is we risk breaking user code, especially on Windows
platforms where <stdint.h> or <cstdint> did not arrive until about
2010.
Breaking user code means mailing list questions and bug reports. I
prefer a silent and dark cockpits so I think its best to leave the
cruft.
Jeff