Re: [PATCH] Make AC_COMPUTE_INT public

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:00:23AM CEST:
> 
> >Please mark PROLOGUE as optional.
> It is not really optional in _AC_COMPUTE_INT_{COMPILE,RUN}: an empty 
> argument happens to not give errors, but only AC_COMPUTE_INT uses 
> AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT.

Hehe, nice catch.  Although, upon rereading again, I noticed that 
AC_LANG_INT_SAVE(C) includes stdio.h and stdlib.h unconditionally,
saving us from requiring users to force-include any headers .  So
you could just remove the sentence to this end.  (Note that, if
this were not the case, most gnulib usages of _AC_COMPUTE_INT would
be buggy.)

> [...] Furthermore, the range of the value
> +should be one bit less than the size of a @code{signed long}.  That is,
> +for a system where @code{long} is 32-bit, the value should be between
> address@hidden << 30} and @code{1 << 30}, excluding the extrema).

Remove these sentences, too.  Upon rereading the macro, I think it
should work fine up to LONG_MAX, barring any hidden bugs.  (Sorry
for the rough first review, it was done, erm, a bit in a rush.  ;-)

I'd say apply with these changes.  I guess if any of the other
developers have a problem with this, they will speak up.  ;-)
(Anyway I have two more patches to be posted and reviewed, but
not today.)

Cheers,
Ralf