Paul, I'm applying this patch. Feel free to change directly whatever
you want if something needs to be changed.
Index: ChangeLog
from Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): New.
Add information about stdint.h and inttypes.h from Paul Eggert.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.595
diff -u -u -r1.595 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 13 Mar 2002 09:44:24 -0000 1.595
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 13 Mar 2002 09:58:00 -0000
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@
Header Files
+* Header Portability:: Collected knowledge on common headers
* Particular Headers:: Special handling to find certain headers
* Generic Headers:: How to find other headers
@@ -413,7 +414,7 @@
* Changed Quotation:: Broken code which used to work
* New Macros:: Interaction with foreign macros
* Hosts and Cross-Compilation:: Bugward compatibility kludges
-* AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS::
+* AC_LIBOBJ vs. LIBOBJS:: LIBOBJS is a forbidden token
Generating Test Suites with Autotest
@@ -4002,9 +4003,29 @@
it, then you can use one of the general header-file check macros.
@menu
+* Header Portability:: Collected knowledge on common headers
* Particular Headers:: Special handling to find certain headers
* Generic Headers:: How to find other headers
@end menu
+
+@node Header Portability
+@subsection Portability of Headers
+
+This section tries to collect knowledge about common headers, and the
+problem they cause. By definition, this list will always require
+additions. Please help us keeping it as complete as possible.
+
+@table @asis
+@item @file{inttypes.h} vs. @file{stdint.h}
+Paul Eggert notes that: ISO C 1999 says that @file{inttypes.h} includes
+@file{stdint.h}, so there's no need to include @file{stdint.h}
+separately in a standard environment. Many implementations have
+@file{inttypes.h} but not @file{stdint.h} (e.g. Solaris 7), but I don't
+know of any implementation that has @file{stdint.h} but not
+@file{inttypes.h}. Nor do I know of any free software that includes
+@file{stdint.h}; @file{stdint.h} seems to be a creation of the committee.
+@end table
+
@node Particular Headers
@subsection Particular Header Checks
