Hello Bruno, Simon,
* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:47:31PM CET:
Simon Josefsson wrote:
I find AC_TRY_COMPILE slightly easier to work with
than AC_COMPILE_IFELSE so perhaps we could argue that it should be
non-deprecated, unless there were a strong reason to deprecate
Simon Josefsson wrote:
I find AC_TRY_COMPILE slightly easier to work with
than AC_COMPILE_IFELSE so perhaps we could argue that it should be
non-deprecated, unless there were a strong reason to deprecate it.
Likewise for me. AC_TRY_COMPILE has a more mnemonic name (it follows the
usual rule
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According to Bruno Haible on 3/6/2008 6:49 AM:
| When I write a piece of C code (INCLUDES or FUNCTION-BODY), in 99% of
the cases
| I want brackets to denote array dimensions or array indices. I don't
want them
| to expand to nothing.
|
| You say that
Hello Ralf,
I wrote:
AC_TRY_COMPILE has a more mnemonic name (it follows the
usual rule to use an English verb to as a function/macro name)
and simpler quoting rules than AC_COMPILE_IFELSE.
Also, AC_COMPILE_IFELSE presents a pitfall: One is tempted to write
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE
