| From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date: 15 Mar 2000 09:44:55 +0100
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| Akim> sys/stat.h: Portable or not?
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| Paul> I think it's portable to all targets of interest to GNU applications.
|
| OK, thanks. Shall we include it in the set of default includes?
|
| There is a bit of a slippery slope here. If one includes <sys/stat.h>,
| why not <errno.h> as well? Or <limits.h> (protected by HAVE_LIMITS_H)?
| I'm not sure what rule is being used for deciding what file is included
| in the default list.
Basically the thumb rule is that it is frequent enough to need this
include in order to AC_CHECK_TYPE or AC_CHECK_DECL, or AC_CHECK_SIZEOF
etc.
| is there any reason not to use elif? Lemme bet, not KnR?
|
| Some C compilers lack #elif. I don't recall which ones offhand. Here
| are some relevant ChangeLog entries from GCC.
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| Tue May 25 23:03:11 1993 Per Bothner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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| * config.guess: Fix typo. Avoid #elif (not in K&R 1).
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| Mon Nov 15 13:26:22 1993 Per Bothner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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| * floatconv.c: Avoid using #elif, which some C compilers lack.
OK, thanks Paul! Yet something else to add in the documentation.
Akim
