* Ralph H Castain wrote on Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:39:51PM CEST: > > It sounds, therefore, like we are now C99 compliant and no longer C90 > compliant at all?
Well, a compiler supporting C90 plus 'long long' as an extension would still be ok. Surely, that's not "strictly C90". But from glancing at the mpi.h file in my build tree, some declarations are commented out if HAVE_LONG_LONG is not set. Your comments indicate that things still would not work with a strict C90 compiler. > I don't know how big a deal that is, but if true it is something possibly > worth noting on our web site and in our release notes. The code will > definitely NOT compile unless int64_t is defined and supported. I think for Solaris 2.5.1 and Tru64 4.0, you would need a replacement definition, but I guess those systems aren't targets for OpenMPI either. > PS to Ralf: actually, quite a few systems exist today that do not support > long long or int64_t. The majority of computers in the world, in fact, do > not do so - they are in embedded systems. Right. None of them is fully C99 compliant. AFAIK, some allow (slow!) software emulations for long long types. > We decided that we were tasked > with supporting high-performance computing systems instead, and those are > now built almost exclusively from systems that DO support such structures. > Just a point of correctness... :-) Sure. For practical matters, I would always go for C99 + extensions (as in gcc's -std=gnu99; you could use AC_PROG_CC_STDC from Autoconf-2.60 for some sane choices). Cheers, Ralf
