On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:58, skaller wrote: > [...] > 1. Measure the size (and alignment, while at it) of all the > integer types. (trial execute and run). > [...] > 4. For the ones provided, AND size_t, ptrdiff_t, check > their size (and signedness). (trial execution)
Small additional note: One can determine the size and alignment *without* always resorting to trial execution. Autoconf does this by an ingenious "evaluation by compilation" technique in case of cross-compilation, see the implementation of AC_CHECK_SIZEOF and AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF. > [...] > 6. Test what the typedefs found are actually aliased to > using C++ (there is no other portable way to do this). > (Trial execution) To be honest, I don't understand that point... Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
