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Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF fails with minGW


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF fails with minGW
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:46:46 -0500
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On Thursday 26 January 2012 15:33:34 Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 01/26/2012 12:09 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > And indeed, manually compiling the above snippet with the given
> > compiler flags doesn't result in a binary!
> 
> This bug is so severe that I don't think it's really an Autoconf
> bug, or that Autoconf should try to work around it.  minGW needs
> to be fixed.

indeed

as a higher level response, i don't see why AC_CHECK_SIZEOF in your example is 
attempting to execute code at all.  the latest autoconf is much much nicer and 
can deduce type sizes purely based on compile tests.
-mike

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