Re: [Chicken-users] long pointer equivalent

[Benedikt Rosenau]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:33:15PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> It is easiest to understand in C, I suppose. A GNU Autoconf'ed program
> goes through a lot of scripts during build that generate a config.h
> file which is full of defines that are set to tell you "this platform
> has the foo() call" or "a pointer is eight bytes on this
> platform". The code is then #if'ed to deal with the config.h output.

So much for theory. I work with a number of unusual platforms.
I have not found (auto)confed software that ran on all of them.

Perl at least came close. That is why I gave it a honorable mention.
   Benedikt