On Thu, 5 May 2005, you wrote: > Would it be ok to make use of inttypes.h in testcases of the C-testsuite?
No, it is a C99 hosted-only header which GCC does not provide and many targets do not provide. The exception is gcc.dg/intmax_t-1.c which deliberately uses the system inttypes.h in the hope of detecting whether GCC's intmax_t is wrong. Feel free to work out how to fix bug 448 (implementing <stdint.h> in GCC) and then use <stdint.h>. Geoff Keating had a problem implementing his pragma approach, that the pragma would need to define macros but would be handled too late to do so with lexing up front as used by the C++ front end <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-11/msg00277.html>. I think you want to implement Zack's proposal to split GCC's internal include directories <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-11/msg00254.html> first to reduce problems with compatibility with existing system headers (though you still need to do a fair amount of work to keep the definitions the same as those systems already have and to ensure compatibility with <inttypes.h> on systems which only have that). -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CodeSourcery mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)
