Leveraging objdump extensions for better autoconf cross-compilation support?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 15 2017, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:

> You’d have things like:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     printf(“sizeof long=%u\n”, sizeof(long));
>     exit(0);
> }
>
> or whatever being compiled and run.
>
> What if you could get by with:
>
> const unsigned size_long = sizeof(long);

autoconf already has a standard macro for these kind of tests,
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF, which is cross-friendly.

Andreas.

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