# size_max.m4 serial 2 dnl Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU dnl General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program. dnl From Bruno Haible. AC_DEFUN([gl_SIZE_MAX], [ AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h) dnl First test whether the system already has SIZE_MAX. AC_MSG_CHECKING([for SIZE_MAX]) result= AC_EGREP_CPP([Found it], [ #include #if HAVE_STDINT_H #include #endif #ifdef SIZE_MAX Found it #endif ], result=yes) if test -z "$result"; then dnl Define it ourselves. Here we assume that the type 'size_t' is not wider dnl than the type 'unsigned long'. dnl The _AC_COMPUTE_INT macro works up to LONG_MAX, since it uses 'expr', dnl which is guaranteed to work from LONG_MIN to LONG_MAX. _AC_COMPUTE_INT([~(size_t)0 / 10], res_hi, [#include ], result=?) _AC_COMPUTE_INT([~(size_t)0 % 10], res_lo, [#include ], result=?) _AC_COMPUTE_INT([sizeof (size_t) <= sizeof (unsigned int)], fits_in_uint, [#include ], result=?) if test "$fits_in_uint" = 1; then dnl Even though SIZE_MAX fits in an unsigned int, it must be of type dnl 'unsigned long' if the type 'size_t' is the same as 'unsigned long'. AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include extern size_t foo; extern unsigned long foo; ], [], fits_in_uint=0) fi if test -z "$result"; then if test "$fits_in_uint" = 1; then result="$res_hi$res_lo"U else result="$res_hi$res_lo"UL fi else dnl Shouldn't happen, but who knows... result='~(size_t)0' fi fi AC_MSG_RESULT([$result]) if test "$result" != yes; then AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([SIZE_MAX], [$result], [Define as the maximum value of type 'size_t', if the system doesn't define it.]) fi ])