Re: suggestion for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

2000-05-04 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Bruno" == Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does [testing the signedness] make sense for other types than `char'? Bruno> Yes. In particular size_t and wchar_t come to mind. Wow, signed size_t :) Where can we see that? What effect can it have so that you might need to check fo

snprintf and the horrors thereof

2000-05-04 Thread Caolan McNamara
Theres loads of snprintf implementations lurking in various libc but I believe the C9x standard differs from quite a few especially in the return value. snprintf should return the number of characters that would have been put into the string (excluding the NULL char in this count). And also allow

Re: snprintf and the horrors thereof

2000-05-04 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! Thanks for your contribution, but it is a bit too soon for such a macro to integrate the core Autoconf. Rather, you should submit it to | dnl @synopsis AC_caolan_FUNC_SNPRINTF | dnl | dnl Provides a test for a fully C9x complient snprintf | dnl function. | dnl | dnl defines HAVE

Re: snprintf and the horrors thereof

2000-05-04 Thread Akim Demaille
Sorry, I forgot to past the url: http://research.cys.de/autoconf-archive/ Akim

Possible bug involving ':' in directory names

2000-05-04 Thread Keith Thompson
This is a rather vague bug report; I don't have a lot of detailed information on it. It may not even be a bug in autoconf. The Globus software package (see www.globus.org) uses autoconf to generate configure scripts. I recently discovered that the generated configure scripts have problems when