Re: Latest CVS make compile warnings fix

[J. Grant]

Hi Paul,

[...]
>   jg> I expect those macros were intended to be used with signed values,
>   jg> and now they are being used with unsigned values as well, which is
>   jg> bad.
>
> No, I don't think so.  I don't remember the details but my recollection
> is that they were specifically designed to work with systems which used
> either signed or unsigned values, without having to test for
> that... because there's no way to test for that (remember that if you
> want to be able to cross-compile, and I most definitely DO want make to
> be cross-compilable, you cannot actually _RUN_ any programs during
> autoconf time.  You can only compile/link programs).

Perhaps there could be a way to force setting of config.h macro's for
those circumstances.  Although, if the code simply worked with int's in
all cases I think this warning would not come up.

Kind regards
JG