summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/m4
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-01-25 18:31:56 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-01-25 18:31:56 +0000
commitf3c2752caa931a25ffe68f7de801ea5454091da7 (patch)
tree74a2100c375ba5def4487bb8240d2f9391981578 /m4
parent3423599809f4587ddae77531ec47c450f6da89ca (diff)
downloadcoreutils-f3c2752caa931a25ffe68f7de801ea5454091da7.tar.xz
(AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Add some comments.
Diffstat (limited to 'm4')
-rw-r--r--m4/stdbool.m413
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/m4/stdbool.m4 b/m4/stdbool.m4
index 162f1dfc8..9d423d9d1 100644
--- a/m4/stdbool.m4
+++ b/m4/stdbool.m4
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Check for stdbool.h that conforms to C99.
-dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_HEADER_STDBOOL],
#if defined __xlc__ || __GNUC__
/* Catch a bug in IBM AIX xlc compiler version 6.0.0.0
reported by James Lemley on 2005-10-05; see
- <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-10/msg00086.html>.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-10/msg00086.html
This test is not quite right, since xlc is allowed to
reject this program, as the initializer for xlcbug is
not one of the forms that C requires support for.
@@ -86,10 +86,17 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_HEADER_STDBOOL],
Let us hope that IBM fixes the xlc bug, and also adds
support for this kind of constant expression. In the
meantime, this test will reject xlc, which is OK, since
- our stdbool.h substitute should suffice. */
+ our stdbool.h substitute should suffice. We also test
+ this with GCC, where it should work, to detect more
+ quickly whether someone messes up the test in the
+ future. */
char digs[] = "0123456789";
int xlcbug = 1 / (&(digs + 5)[-2 + (bool) 1] == &digs[4] ? 1 : -1);
#endif
+ /* Catch a bug in an HP-UX C compiler. See
+ http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-12/msg02303.html
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00161.html
+ */
_Bool q = true;
_Bool *pq = &q;
],