Re: AC_FUNC_STRTOD

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:56:21PM CEST:
> Paolo Bonzini wrote on 2010-06-15:
> >  >    - AC_FUNC_STRNLEN
> > 
> > This maybe falls in the same group as AC_FUNC_MALLOC/AC_FUNC_REALLOC.
> 
> OK, let's leave it in Autoconf. But the cross-compilation guess is too
> pessimistic for gnulib habits: we haven't seen the AIX bug on any system
> except on AIX. In particular, it's bad to guess "no" for embedded glibc
> systems because that increases the size of compiled executables.

But that holds for Autoconf's AC_FUNC_STRNLEN as well.  Shouldn't it
have a more optimistic cross compilation guess, too?

Thanks,
Ralf

> 2010-08-28  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
> 
>       strnlen: Improve cross-compilation guess.
>       * m4/strnlen.m4 (gl_FUNC_STRNLEN): Require AC_CANONICAL_HOST. Inline
>       the definition of AC_FUNC_STRNLEN, with an improved cross-compilation
>       guess.