Re: Compile problem on HP-UX 10.20 with test-stdint.c

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:53:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Bruno Haible on 6/20/2008 5:58 PM:
> |> The problem is the following:
> |>   #if INTMAX_MIN && INTMAX_MAX && UINTMAX_MAX
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> | Well, it seems this compiler does not grok long long numbers in preprocessor
> | expressions. But this is an ISO C 99 requirement, and test-stdint checks
> for it.
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> I thought we already decided that requiring long long support in the
> preprocessor is a losing battle, at least for a couple more years.  Maybe
> the solution here is to weaken the gnulib test for now (ie. comment out
> the preprocessor checks for now, and instead test only the weaker
> condition that INTMAX_MAX and friends can be used as identifiers in an
> expression that evaluates to a long long).

Sounds ok to me. The HP 10.20 preprocessor will never support long long.
So, we either abandon support for it or remove the tests. The HP C
compiler is fine with long longs, just not the preprocessor.

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