[ft-devel] Re: freetype-2.3.7 -- ftconfig.h for biarch systems

[mpsuzuki]

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:03:36 +0200 (CEST)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Here is a sample of cpp input which is based on
>> my previous post. I tested on:
>> 
>> * Mac OS X 10.4 on G3 PowerPC (default is LP32)
>> * HP-UX 11 on IA64 & HP C compiler (default is LP32. +DD64 makes LP64). 
>> * AIX 5.2 on ppc64 & Hitachi C compiler (default is LP32. -64 makes LP64).
>> * GNU/Linux (glibc-2.7) on amd64 & gcc-3.3 (default is LP64, -m32 makes 
>> LP32).
>> * GNU/Linux (glibc-2.7) on i386 & Tiny C compiler (default is LP32).
>> * FreeBSD 4.11 on i386 & gcc-2.95.4 (LP32 but inttypes.h has uint64_t).
>> * FreeBSD 6.2 on amd64 & gcc-3.4.6 (default is LP64, -m32 makes LP64).
>
>Thanks a lot for your great analysis and code!  Please install
>whatever you think is appropriate.

Thank you for positive comment. As a quick fix for this issue,
I will commit this, after small cleanup.
I guess the requirement of single config.h supporting multiple
arch/data-model/ABIs might be popular, so I posted to autoconf
list for further discussion toward to generic solution.

>> Also the requirement of support for 16bit-integer platform
>> should be discussed. Yet I don't have any good system to
>> run configure - anybody has access to legacy Minix for 8086?
>
>Hmm.  What about running, say, the emx compiler in an MSDOS shell
>within a BOCHS (or DOSEMU) session?  A longer time ago I did this to
>check whether 16bit support still works.  It might be a good exercise
>to test this again.  Reason: 16bit compilers might detect problems not
>visible to 32bit compilers.

Also thank you for the information, I was not aware of emx compiler,
I will try. At present, the most easiest 16bit environment in
Debian GNU/Linux might be Bruce's C compiler and ELKS, but it's
oriented to GNU/Linux, I want to test on more older 16bit systems.

Regards,
mpsuzuki