From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2437 invoked by alias); 6 Sep 2004 14:36:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 2092 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2004 14:36:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO develer.com) (151.38.19.110) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 6 Sep 2004 14:36:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 28725 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2004 14:36:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mimas) (10.3.3.245) by ns.trilan with SMTP; 6 Sep 2004 14:36:24 -0000 Message-ID: <0e6f01c4941e$e2b26b90$f503030a@mimas> From: "Giovanni Bajo" To: "Zack Weinberg" Cc: References: <200409051545.i85FjPxh028248@usagi.ingate.se><87brgk4pgs.fsf@codesourcery.com><200409052345.i85NjkDn004749@usagi.ingate.se> <87brgk2pla.fsf@codesourcery.com> Subject: Re: AC_COMPILE_CHECK_SIZEOF Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:36:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00240.txt.bz2 Zack Weinberg wrote: >>> For mainline, I think it would be better if you cut us over to >>> plain AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, which works correctly when cross-compiling in >>> autoconf 2.5x. >> >> That isn't a simple one line fix though. :-) > > Yes, well, mainline is the place for not-simple-one-line-fixes. > Although, we are on the threshold of stage 3 of development, so this > might be better held for 3.6. Why? I thought that Stage 3 was for fixing bugs, even if you need to rearrange the code or do non trivial changes. It is the release branch where we fix only regressions, and possibly with one liners. Am I wrong? Giovanni Bajo