Keith Bostic writes:
> For example, databases need to write fixed-size information into
> memory and onto disk, and so have to know how big a type really is.
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF?
> Another example are applications that are written (correctly)
> to use ssize_t. If the system has a size_t, but not a ssize_t,
> to what type do you typedef the ssize_t?
Since all functions that I know that use ssize_t use it as a return value
you can just be conservative and use the biggest integer type you have
available. In trickier situations (pointer to ssize_t as argument), you
can follow the approach taken by the accept() arguments check in the macro
archive.
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