Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What would tar need?  The value of $ac_shiftbits and $ac_signbits
> as `#define's?

Only shiftbits.  C source code can compute signbits itself, with the
expression ((type) -1 < 0).

The tricky bit here is that ac_shiftbits is not always calculated, and
we don't want to calculate it if we don't need it, as it's expensive
to calculate.


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