* Alexander Neundorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:

> Well, IMO this makes it sound too easy.
> If you write portable software, you have to do platform checks.
> Basically they can be done by
> -checking for the existence of files
> -checking if something builds
> -checking the output of running something you just built

Some concerete examples where you really *need* that ?

> The last one is the problem for cross compiling.
> Example: detecting the size of ints
> 
> Easy way:
> 
> ...
> printf("%d\n", sizeof(long));
> ...

Why not directly using sizeof() in your code ?


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