I hadn't thought about the possibility that the standard includes define
__builtin_expect as a macro. I installed the attached; please give it a try.
From 50ba47004ee83c3a68d4416b8664117dc5e77eee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:47:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] builtin-expect: port to IBM XL C
Problem reported for z/OS by Daniel Richard G. in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-12/msg00074.html
* m4/builtin-expect.m4 (gl___BUILTIN_EXPECT):
Also allow __builtin_expect defined via a standard include file.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++++++
m4/builtin-expect.m4 | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aba7199..2c44748 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
2016-12-16 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
+ builtin-expect: port to IBM XL C
+ Problem reported for z/OS by Daniel Richard G. in:
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-12/msg00074.html
+ * m4/builtin-expect.m4 (gl___BUILTIN_EXPECT):
+ Also allow __builtin_expect defined via a standard include file.
+
regex: fix dependency
Problem reported by Bruno Haible in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-12/msg00073.html
diff --git a/m4/builtin-expect.m4 b/m4/builtin-expect.m4
index 5f7a323..ce048ae 100644
--- a/m4/builtin-expect.m4
+++ b/m4/builtin-expect.m4
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl___BUILTIN_EXPECT],
AC_CACHE_CHECK([for __builtin_expect],
[gl_cv___builtin_expect],
[AC_LINK_IFELSE(
- [AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
+ [AC_LANG_SOURCE([AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT[
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl___BUILTIN_EXPECT],
AC_DEFINE([HAVE___BUILTIN_EXPECT], [1])
fi
AH_VERBATIM([HAVE___BUILTIN_EXPECT],
- [/* Define to 1 if the compiler understands __builtin_expect. */
+ [/* Define to 1 if the compiler or standard include files support
+ __builtin_expect. */
#undef HAVE___BUILTIN_EXPECT
#ifndef HAVE___BUILTIN_EXPECT
# define __builtin_expect(e, c) (e)
--
2.7.4