Re: ac_cv_sizeof_X, et al.

[Tim Post]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 19:25 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> I prefer ac_cv_sizeof_long_long_unsigned_int because it is my nature 
> to be pedantic and it sounds bigger.  Is that bad?

Refreshingly honest, actually.

> If <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> were available everywhere then much of 
> this gobbly gook could go away.  Maybe in another 10 years or so that 
> will be the case.

I doubt it. I've seen several new operating systems based on from
scratch microkernels emerge in the last two years, all of them have
their own from scratch libc, at least one is becoming quite popular for
developers. If no other libc beyond now was developed, what you describe
might be the case. I'm sure other unpublished efforts exist.

I really think, as time goes on the gobbly gook will only increase, it
must :)

I appreciate the bloat, its needed and always will be needed if you hope
to recreate the build that produces your programs no matter what your
working with.

Cheers,
--Tim