Il mer 17 mag 2023, 20:48 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> ha
scritto:

> On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 18:50, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The comment is not correct anymore, in that the usability test for
> > the compiler and linker are done after probing $cpu, and Meson will
> > redo them anyway.
>
> The other thing this check is useful for, though, is
> providing a helpful error message rather than using
> a busted compiler for the other compile checks that
> configure does and then producing a confusing error message
> when some required-item test fails. (I think traditionally
> this was the GLIB_SIZEOF_SIZE_T check, but we may have put
> some other tests before that in the meantime.)
>

Yes but Meson does both the sanity check and the sizeof test now.

Paolo


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